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STORY o^ ALGIERS, 



NOW 



Fifth District of New Orleans. 



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The Past and the Present, 



BV. 



WM. H. SEYMOUR, 



LIMITED EDITION 

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Algiers Democrat Publishing Co., Ltd. 



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PREFACE. 



These re/iii/iisi-i'/ires of the jxist it /ins seenie'l to me ti diiti/ to 
record. An actor t/ierei/i, circiimsta/ices ajjordefl me e.xce])t'ion(il 
(idntntdiies for it better view. I hare, in manij cases, been a witness 
to the facts allei/cd, or hare obtained them from reliable soarces. 

The st(a-i/ e.xiends from F re nidi liienrille to ?lmerii-an Claiborne 
and thence to the jiresenf dai/. Cnm/nencifiij from the period irheii 
siijjerstlti/tion cast a ireird reil of lail^^terij orer the i/reat rirer which 
surrounds us, and Indian legends iieopled erenj nook of the section 
with fa ntasfic creations of untutored fancij. Jesuit and Caralier, 
frenchman and Spaniard, Canadian and Yankee, /la tires of all 
climes, in (Uir earli/ dan, iatriijued and j)lanned on this soil. H'hat 
wonder, after this record, that it is so richltj varied, so charminf/, 
.so nni'/ue? ifistorij sinipli/ repeats itself— as sound tnoces in 
wares. 

I hare confined mij storij, and not attempted, for fear of tirini/ 
the reader, to relate ereri^ incident of the past. It has been irritten 
after maim a weary daifc^ duties have ceased, when the residents of 
our basil district were in slutnber. If the perusal of these pai/es 
proves of interest to the reader, then tnaii I hope the stori/ and other 
data hare not been i/iren i'l vain. 

Jl'M. H. SKY.MOVR. 



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[ffe ^torij) ef JVlgiers. 



rr>HIS town, known by its corporate title as the Fifth district of New Orleans, 

I is a part of all that portion of the parish of Orleans on the ricrht bank of the 

^ Mississippi river, commencing at the parish line of Jefferson, has a front upon 

the river of thirteen and a half miles, to within a short distance of the English 

turn by a depth of about three miles. 

Comprised within that area are also included the towns of Mcl3onogh and Tu- 
nisburg, several sugar plantations, many orange groves, cultivated gardens, dry 
docks, two railroads, one of which, with its connections, ends with the Golden Gate 
of the far away Pacific coast, evidencing truly that "westward the course of empire 
takes its way." The entire district has a population exceeding 16,000 people. 

As a place of residence Algiers is most delightfully situated within a narrow 
elbow of the river, which makes the wide crescent on the city side. It has, there- 
fore, a freer sweep of the air than the most famous localities of New Orleans. It 
is cooler and purer in atmosphere than in the city. 

The first authentic reference to the place is by Le Page du Pratz, probably the 
earliest historian of our State, who was superintendent of the Kings plantation 
in 1718, by appointment of Louis, King of France, the tract embraced all land 
from the fort at Plaquemines to the Indian village of Chetimachas (now Donald- 
sonville), thence to Fort Rosalie, now the cite of Natchez, the section alluded to 
bearing at one time the name, also, of the "Company's Plantation. ' Rice, corn and 
indigo were raised for account of the company, and even exjiortation to the 
Spanish garrison at Pensacola. Eventually the laborers, African negroes, were all 
disposed of to planters on the German coast, now known as St. James and St. 
Charles parishes. 

History, traditions and romance tell us that Bienville found the Indian village 
of Tchou-Tchouma, in 1718, where the ]5ayou St. John bridge is now located. 
Years pass on. The Baron Carondelet, Spanish governor of the provinces, selected 
his country house near the present corner of Carondelet street and theDeloid plan- 
tation line, whilst his good dame, le baronne, planted her roses a block further 
back. Etienne de Bore and the Jesuit fathers cultivated about the same j)eriod, 
I7g4, their sugar cane, and planted their oaks upon the ground where Farragut, 
Grant and Banks, one April day rested their forces in 1863. Eater on, a little over a 
a score of years, and we behold ui)oii the si)Ot a cotton centennial exposition, with 
tributes from all portions of the globe, and view with reverence the old Libertv 
r»ell of 1776. A new St. Charles hotel has arisen for the third time upon the iden- 
tical spot where old Mr. Percy planted his vegetables in 1800, for consumiJtion in 
the vieux carre, below the canal, which was subsequently filled, now the most 
charming boulevar<i of the South. 

Our city journals sometime past gave an interesting account of the electric 
$5.00 Monthly can buy a g:ood new Piano at GRUNEWALD'S. 



WM. A\. RAILEY, GEO. 5. KAU5LER, ALLEN MEMLE, 

President. Vice President. Sec. and Treas. 

WM. M. RAILEY & CO., 

^LIMITED,) 

Fire :i Marine Insurance, 

New No. 307 CAKONDHLHT STKHHT, 

REPI^ESENXING: 

Plid^iiix Iiisuraiice Co., of Hartford, Coini., - $ 5,5(S<S,0.5S 

Koyal Insurance Co., of Liverpool, - - 4^^), 000, 000 

Seottisli Union and National, of Edin]>urLili, - '21,728,500 

Lion Lisuranee Co., (Ltd.) of London, - 1,208,855 

Marine Lisurance Co.. (Ltd.) of London, - 5,4^5,005 

Sea Insurance Co., (Lt(L) of Li\ crixtol, - 8,184,<>7r) 



LOSSES K(,)11TABLY ADJUSTED AND 
PROMPTLY PAID. 

GEO. HERBERT, 

209 Olivier street. Algiers Representative. 



All these Companies were largely inter- 
ested in the Algiers Fire, and Paid their 
Losses Promptly. 



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Eleven Miles of :^sithalt Pareineiit Laid in \etr Orleans in 

the Last Six Years. 



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power-house just comitleted on Marigny and Chartres street, but lovers of the old 
hallowed memories of the past have not forgotten that upon the same identical 
site, just a century ago, stood the old mansion of Marigny de Mandeville, who had 
for years, as his guest, Louis Phillippe, son of the duke of Orleans. Young Louis 
becoming in later years King of France, and the wealthiest man ui all Europe. 
Marigny sleeps here in the old cathedral he loved so well, at the foc>t of the altar 
of "Our Lady of Lourdes," Louis, with his ancestors, at the Cathedral of St. 
Denis, in France. What a theme for thought, royalty is brushed aside, the new 
power of electricity in its place. It removes the anc ent landmark, obliterates the 
last traces of ancient power and grandeur \u Orleans island, niak ng all things 
bend to its potent will. 

But we are wandering from our subject. The town and district across the 
river Mechacebe, the red man's sacr<;d stream is not as interesting, still there is 
matter from the traditions of the past. After the departure of le Page du Pratz 
homewards m 1734, the site seemed to drop into obscurity and but little is known. 
The great river rolled on to the Mexican gulf; the alligators slept indolently in the 
sun, while the pslican wandered in the lowland and dense cypress surroundings. 
The century waned, and in 1762, the Spanish regime became dominant through the 
cession from Louis X\'. of the province, to Spain at Fountaincbleau, of all the 
country known as Louisiana. On August 18, 1769, Don .Alexander O'Reilly arrived 
in New Orleans with authority to receive possession of the province, no resistance 
was made, and on that day at 3 o'clock, at the place d'armes, the French flag was 
lowered, that of Spain unfurled and the government passed from the P'rench to the _ 
Spanish authorities. 

The cabildo met on December 1, under the presidency of O'Reilly and laws 
were enacted for the government, amongst others, for the sale of lands belonging 
to the crown, and the governor general required at stated times to contract with 
suitable persons styled "pobladores" to colonize the unsettled lands under his 
control. 

L-nder these regulations, a large portion of the tract by royal patent, embracing 
all lands between the present line of Verret street and the upper line, now McDon- 
ogh, was granted to Louis Borepo, February 3, 1770, through whofe title it tinallv 
passed to Bartholomi Duverje, for $18,000, on the ()th of August, 1805, and event- 
ually became the (jriginal town of Algiers, meeting the same fate to a considera- 
ble extent upon the 20th of October, 1895, '^^^ befell its larger neighbor across the 
river, when a Franco-.Spanish city, on the 8th of December, 1794, "when a strong 
north wind was blowing, and in three hours 212 dwellings and stores in the heart of 
town were destroyed, " The old historical mansion in Algiers, used for many years 
as a temple of justice, and known in the olden times as the "Duverje house," the 
counterpart of which was the Louisiana State building, at the Columbia exposition 
of 1893, perished likewise in the flames with some hundreds of buildings in that 
section. 

From the rai)id reconstruction iimv progressing upon the tract, another year 
the ashes and ruins willjiave disappeared, a new town will have arisen like tlie 
PhcEiiix of old, and the sad memories (jf deprivations of home.s and all that was 
■dear will be a thing of the past. 

Under the territorial government of Louisiana the right bank, undtr the legis- 
lative enactment of 1805, was a portion of the county, of Orleans, which included 
also Plafpiemines and .St. Bernard, same was under the jurisdiction of a police jurv, 

$4.00 Monthly can buy a g-ood new Or?an at GRUNE"WALD'S. 



[iVerpooI aod lopdoi) and 



Globe Insurance (o. 



AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 
Losses Paid in United States Over ,f (3B,000,000 




Company's Biiildino\ Cdrner Ccir-)ndelet and Common Streets, 

NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



Assets held in United States, 
Losses by Chicago Fire 1871, 
Losses by Boston Fire, 1872, 



:].2:j9.0i)l.oo 

1.427.290.00 




Dl'VERJE PLANTATION HOME, EKECTEU l8l2. 

(Subsequently the court house, destroyed by fire Oct. 20, 1895.) 



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FRED. W. ABBOT, Pres. 
Ass. M. Inst. C. E. 
Asst. Mem. Am. Soc. C. E. 



HAMILTON R. GAMBLE, 
Sec. and Treas. 



llt)t)ot-Gant)le ConWing Company 



CIVIL ENGINEERING 

....AND.... 

GENERAL CONTRACTING, 



MAIN OFFICE: 

(>20 CHESTNUT STREET, 



St. Louis, Mo. 



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SPECIALTIES: 

Sanitary and Connbined System of Sewers, 
Street Paving and Waterworks Const. 



REFERENCES: 
SANITARY SEWERS: 

Mayor and Gity Gouncil, 

Springfield, Mo. 
COMBINED SEWERS: 

Sewer Commissioners, 

St. Louis. 
Mayor and City Council. 

Belleville, III. 



'^ REFERENCES: 

STREET PAVING: 

Street Commissioner, St. Louis. 
- Mayor and City Council, 

Belleville, IIL 
W \TERWORKS CONST.: 

Water Commissioner. St. Louis. 
Waterworks Co., 

New Orleans, La. 



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which provided for its local government, until the annexation to the city .by legis- 
lative act approved March 14, 1870, when all that portion of the parish on the right 
bank of the river became the fifth municipal district of the city of New Orleans. 

Close by the river bank for many a year stood the somber dwelling of the phi- 
lanthropist whose name is remembered now in stately school edifices throughout 
our fair city. Within its walls the owner for twenty-two long years toiled, reflected 
and pondered m composing that famous will, wherein his estate of millions was to 
accumulate perpetually for future posterity and the glory of his name, the full in- 
tent of which testament bearing date of 29th December, 1838, was so contrary to 
the jurisprudence of our civil law, that finally it went to Coin-Delisle, Giraud Mar- 
cade and other noted French jurists, advocates of the "Cour de Cassation" at Paris, 
who, on December 18, 1851, failed to reconcile its analogy to the Code of Napo- 
leon, upon which our civil law is founded, wherein all bequests in the nature of 
fidei commissa are prohibited. The subsequent litigation upon the vast estate, 
divided between New Orleans and Baltimore, McDonogh's birthplace, would be too 
tedious to dwell upon. 

Down the river to the right still stands intact, with the plantation surroundings, 
the Cazelar house, the headquarters of General Morgan, upon the 8th of January, 
1815. Victory prevailed at Chalmette, vis a vis, but the glory of that event was 
partially dimmed by the flight of Morgan and his troops, who fled to A'giers, 
warmly pursued by the British forces. It was in this action that the British ac- 
quired the small flag, which now hangs amid the trophies of other wars in White- 
hall, London, with this inscription: "Taken at the battle of New Orleans." Upon 
one of the guns captured at Cazelars, the victors read: "Taken at the surrender 
of Yorktown, 1781." 

Before reaching the old plantation alluded to one meets the little hamlet of 
Tunisburg. Close by there, old residents still point out where stood until a few 
years ago a picturesque cottage, but now crumbled into decay. This was formerly 
the home of W. B. Howell, father-in-law of Jefferson Davis, to whom it was sold on 
the 3rd of January, 1853. Mr. Davis spent many pleasant days at the old home 
when his busy life permitted. Eventually the property was sold under the confis- 
cation act of Congress, in 1865. After the demise of Mr. Davis, suit was instituted 
in our courts in 1892. The writer appeared for the defendant, who had only ac- 
quired by the purchase the life interest of Mr. Davis therein, acknowledging the 
correctness of the claim for restitution. Judge Monroe never had a pleasanter 
judicial duty assigned him than that of restoring to Mrs. V'arina Howell Davis, as 
widow, her community half in the old property of her father; to Miss Varina Davis 
and Mrs. Margaret Howell Hayes, the residue, as the sole heirs of Jefferson Davis, 
their father, to whom in said proportions the property still belongs. 

Within the borders of the subject of this sketch many incidents of the past can 
be related. 'Twas here that Raphael Semmes assumed command of the Sumter 
on the 22(1 of Ai>ril, 1861. On the 3d of June ensuing, he formally placed the vessel 
in commission. On that day the colors were hoisted for the first time of the 
Southern Confederacy. The vessel was then lying in the stream off Lavergne 
street. These identical colors were by him subsequently transferred to the Ala- 
bama, going down with the latter in the engagement with the Kearsarge at Cher- 
bourg, France, on Sunday, June 19, 1864. By the cruel irony of fate, the last flag 
of the same service disappeared with the Webb, when destroyed by her crew to pre- 
vent capture by the Federal shijis within sight of the lower part of the district, 

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after the Webb's memorable trip past the city, just four years from the date that 
Semmes first threw his colors to the southern breeze. 

r A handsome edifie for educational purposes has just been completed by the 
city authorities, and baptized "Belleville," upon the grounds where stood for many 
years the old Hughes Hotel. Truth again proves stranger than fiction. Upon the 
same spot, on January 30, 1861, Caj)tain John G. Breshwood, master of the revenue 
cutter McClelland, while visiting the Hughes, his vessel being at the time at anchor 
in the stream off Belleville street, was handed a dispatch just received from Sec- 
retary John A. Uix, of the treasury at Washington, sent by the latter in a moment 
of inspiration, a heroic sentiment, which concluded, "If any one attempts to haul 
down the American flag, shoot him on the sjiot," which, copied and recopied 
through the uress of the North, flew like wild-lire from lip to lip, like a tocsin or 
trumpet peal.) 

The A'gerians have had manv jaleasant people at times to cast their lot among 
them. Albert Delpit, the charming writer, long a resident of France, is "native 
here, and to the manner born," while Ruth McEnery Stuart, one oi Louisiana's 
fair daug'nters, passed from girlhood to womanhood amongst us, dreaming and 
weaving, perhaps, in thought, those <jf "The Golden Wedding" and "Christmas 
Gifts" to come in future days. 

Minister Pitkin, to the Argentine Republic, also refers with pleasure to the 
period when he likewise had his cottage home here, facing the broad river, en- 
circled with rose vines and the stately magnolia, in close proximity to the AIc- 
Donogh home. 

The theme chosen is a lengthy one, and will end with the origin of the name 
Algiers. Many, many stories have been written and foisted upon the public on 
the subject, reaching back to the early part of the century. Several of the old 
citizens have preserved the traditions and stories of tlie past. 

The powder magazine of the French regime and subsequentiy of the Spanish 
according to the ancient maps, several being still extant, shows that the location 
was at the head of rue de la Poudriere, or Powder street, a portion of which street 
adjoins the Grand Isle Depot; the balance having long since been submerged by 
caving banks. Stoddard, in his early sketches of Louisiana, 1812, tells us that it 
faced the government house, on the corner of Toulouse street and the levee; "that 
a guard was always stationed there and gef.eraliy relieved weekly." Au old citi- 
zen, Llulla, by name, long since gathered to his fathers, related oft' that the name 
was suggested by one of O'Reilly's soldiers, who had returned here after the expe- 
dition which -Spain undertook against Algeria, where they were so badly repulsed. 
This old soldier, after several years absence, returned to Louisiana and found the 
magazine surrounded by a hamlet of a dozen houses, still without a name, with 
the guardians of Carondelet still in possession. From the old son of Castile and 
Leon, far from the flow of the Guadakiuivir, at his suggestion the name was given, 
which has held so tenaciously; still stranger to relate, not another town bearing a 
like appellation is to be found throughout our broad land. 

Thus it came from the far away colonial white-walled city in a jirovinqe of 
France, upon whose shores the blue waters of the Mediteranean sparkle in the 
bright sunlight, whose breezes bear afar the sweet odor of the olive and myrtle. 



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(LIMITED,) 

Saw and Planing Mill, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



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BRANCH OFFICE: 

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XEW Or^LEANIS. LA. 

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SUPERINTENDENT. 



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Chronological, Historical Notes and Sketches. 
— v/.^Ay/.'/>iy/- — 

On the 6th of April, 1682, the Sieur de Ih Salle and companions, who descended 
from Canada by way of the lakes and river, at last reached the gulf after their 
long and perilous voyage upon the Meschaebe. Three days ensuing they ascended 
the river, and upon the right bank erected a column and a cross. The arms oi 
France were attached to the column with this inscription, "Louis, the Great King 
of France and Navarre Reigns, the gth ot April, 1682." Thus taking possession 
•of the whole country of Louisiana, then extending from the gulf to Canada, for the 
French King, the nation and people contained therein, the seas and all the streams 
flowing into the grand river, which la Salle named St. Louis. From this acquisition 
to the crown of France, twenty States have been since formed as part of the 
Federal Union. Two score miles in a direct line from Algiers, at this epoch, 
-brings one to the site where the King's cross was erected, proclamation and proces 
verbal, signed and registered by Metairie, the royal notary, commissioned to 
accompany the discoverors; the ceremony being concluded with religious songs 
and cries of "\'ive le Roi." 

The first sketch showing the site of this town was drawn by M. De Serigay, in 
the year 1719, and is still extant in the Depot des Cartes ^Lanne a Paris. The 
buildings shown were the powder magazines, about Bouny and Morgan streets of 
present day. 

A plan of the city and suburbs, including the right bank, drawn in 1815, a 
certified copy of which is on tile in the Department of the Interior at Washington, 
shows the Duverje, Verret and Le Beuf plantation residences. A French traveler 
whose work is in the library Bibliotheque Xationale, Paris, writes that in departing 
from New Orleans. January 5th, 1817, "their vessel hoisted sails opposite the 
Duverje plantation home, just above the powder magazines, and a short distance 
below the slaughter pens, or abattoir of that period, about Olivier street. 

The first shipyard with marine ways was established in 1819, by Andre 
:Seguin, a native of Havre, France, at the head of the street which stills bears his 
name, facing the ofiice where the Algiers Democrat is now established. The site 
was purchased from Mrs. Duverje, being the first piece of property sold by her 
-from the original Duverje i)lantation. 

Verret's canal was excavated in 1S14, by Kurcy X'erret. The canal was used 
by Lafitte, Dominique You and other corsairs of the gulf, for passage of their 
small vessels to Cheniere Caminada, Grande Terre and Barataria, where their set- 
tlements were located. At the head site of the canal may yet be seen a brick wall 
upon the adjoining site, formerly stood a square redoubt. The historian, Latour, 
tells us, "The redoubt was furnished wish a small powder magazine, and was 
mounted with two twenty-four pounders. Its battery commanded at once the road 
and the river under command of Captain Henley." It wasnear here that Morgan's 
troops rallied after their flight on the 8th of January, 1815. 

Belleville Foundry was commenced in 1846. Front walls, still in existence, 
■were designed after the Penrhynn Castle in Wales. During 1861, occupied as a 
F"ederal, and subseqnently as a Confederate prison, destroyed by fire. 

Captain Morse's residence, corner Belleville and Alix streets, was originally 

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that of \\". H Brown, wlio was killed by tlie explositjii of the Louisiana at Canal 
street wliart, the 15th of Novemlier, 1849, ujion which occasion so many iierishetJ. 

The old sugir-house on one of Camus' plantations is still in existence, the 
buildiiit;, a brick one, was erected in ijgs, while Louisiana was under Spanish rule. 
It was at that period that the manufacturing of sugar was successfully introduced 
in the State, and demonstrated to be practicable, and thus began a source of 
ever growing wealth. The machinery of those days was exceedingly sim])le; 
steam has superceiled the patient mule; bisulpliates and other chemicals have 
taken away pure Imie, then used, but all oi the niodein inno\ations fail in com- 
parison to tlie purity and sweetness of the product of the olden times. 

Mitchell & Co. published m 1840 tlie New Orleans Directory. 'Lhe names of 
all white male citizens wlio then resideil m .Algiers, McDonogh and Tunisburg are 
therein given. 

McDoiioglTs home was situated in the S(]uare bounded bv Adams, Jefferson, 
Jacksdii and Homer streets. The site is submerged at liigli water every season. 
His tdiub IS Incatcd in the cemetery, just beyond the parish line, upon the 
contiiiuatiou of X'allt tie street. It is well wortliy of inspection tn the curious 
seekei s. 

\'erret's sugar-house was situated, ior many a year, upon the present site of 
the Morgan roundhouse. 

The race track was outside of Opelousas, vis-a-vis to the Duverje cemetery. 
The entrance was at the corner of .Alix and Louny. Iiob Xicholsoii was gate 
keeiier. 

\\"here engine tire company No. 17 is now located on Delaronde, near Bouny 
street, was the parish courthouse for many years, until the remo\'al to the present 
site ill the sirring of i860. In front ot Mrs. Norton's dwelling, on Olivier, near 
Alix, may yet be seen the roots of a large oak tree. This is the identical spot 
wliere the midnight meetings of the voudous, and celebration on St. John eve 
annually took place, the negro worshipers, with their orgies and invocations, 
chanting in their frenzy, "Aiel .Aiel \'oudoo ?Jagnanl" "Ehl ehl Bonba houe." 

Opelousas Hotel was a bri k building at tiie corner of Pelican and \'erret streets, 

A. de Monasterio, owner; constructed in i8-;q; occujiied by Colonel .Stephen 
Thomas and the Eighth Regiment of \'ermout \"oluiiteers; destroyed while so 
occupied by fire, August, 18&2. Ct)loiiel Thomas was subsequently elected 
governor upon his return to \'ermonc. The de Monasterios have never been paid 
for their loss, although the claim has been en file for many years with the 
.Spanish minister at Wasliington. Attakapas Hotel, subse(juently Wilson House, 
built in 1838, destroyed by fire, upon the site now occupied by Borne's shop, Pat- 
terson street. The Willow Grove Hotel, situated some two blocks a!)o\e Morgan 
street, all of the site and adjoining ground caved in the river on the 30th of .May, 1844. 

On February ijtli, 1849, Jean B. Dupiere sold to the L'nited States government, 
for the site of a navy yard, real estate below Algiers for 5^15,000. By expropria- 
tion proceedings in the Federal Courts, in May, 1894, additional ground was 
attained from the Oliviers for #37,000 and the Trepagniers for S7500. 

The St. Charles Hall, on Patterson street, built for A. L. Hasling, was for 
many years the only ball room in town, and was the scene ot many a social festive 
and political gathering. It was also used for amateur theatrical purposes from 
1874 to 1878 by the .Algiers Dramatic .Association, the officers of which were: A. 

B. Seger, president; Louis F. Chalin, treasurer; W. H. .Seymour, stage manager; 



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Bros., Planting and Manufacturing Co., Limited, Evan Hall Plantation; 
Leon Godcliaux, Rescue Plantation; Lii)by & Brown, Bush Grove Plantation; 
The American Sugar Refining Co.; A. A. Maginnis .Sons; Lafayette Ware- 
house Co., Brooklvn Cooperage Co., H. T. Cottam, Boston Warehouse. 
SOHILLINGER PAVING IN ALGIERS: 
Geo. W. Foster, Frank A. Daniels, Postmaster; Captain M. .A. Morse, Southern 
Pacific Railroad Co., Jno. W. Webert, Thos. Kennedy, A. F. Marshall, Belle- 
ville School, McDoiiogh No. 4. 



Miss Myra Gerard, musical directoress; J. F. UeSeames, scenic artist. Many 
delightful plays were rendered, with one exception, that of September 14th, 1874. 
The male members of the association CGntributing to a more serious drama, being 
enacted upon the levee at Liberty place where the monument now stands. 

During the late conflagration was destroyed a queer, curious, old fashioned 
two-story building, erected by A. L. l^asling, at 68 Delaronde street, long occupied 
by an odd lot of tenants. At one tiijie Laura D. Fair-Greyson resided there. She 
went to California, and is th_e:same woman who assasinated Alexander? Crittenden, 
a noted lawyer, on the steamer El Cap^itaij, all of which became a cause celebre 
owing to the prominence of the parties. This was on the 3d of November, 1870. 

A. B. Bacon was editor and publisher of tlie Algiers Newsboy in i860, at the 
corner of Morgan and Bermuda streets. For what was considered as a disloyal 
article published in the paper in 1862 same ^\as suppressed, and Mr. Bacon incar- 
cerated at Fort Jackson by order of General Butler. William Teal-Bensick and 
other citizens accompanied him for being disloyal to the LInion. 

Geo. W. Hopkins published from Morg^an street the Algiers Weekly News, a 
small single sheet paper, during 1864 66. This was succeeded by the Algiers Inde- 
pendent, Wm. H. Toy, editor and publisher. The Independent was well edited, 
and became quite popular in Algiers. During 1868-70 Mr. Toy was printer, editor, 
devil and publisher all at one time. 

The latter journal in time was succeeded by the Peoples' Advocate, Lawrence 
and Givens, publishers, and eventually by W. R. Lawrence only, 1888-90. After 
this the Algiers Democrat, published by the Algiers Democrat Publishing Co., 
Limited, whereof Martin Behrman is president and C. M. Jennings, secretary, the 
latter being editor also; the first issue was published in September, 1894. The 
above enumerated are the only journals that were ever actuallv printed and pub- 
lished on the right bank of the i-iver. 

The Legislature, by enactment, at the session held February, 1827, gave ex- 
clusive privileges to Auguste Coycault and Bazile Gosselin to establish and main- 
tain a steam ferry-boat to the opposite side of the river. Cabin arrangements were 
to be provided for at least twenty passengers; the rates were fixed at one bit for 
a foot passenger and fifty cents for a horse. 

.St. Bartholomew's church was erected ujion the site where Guillaud's furniture 
store was established, facing the courthouse. Mrs. Octavie Duverje donated the 
ground for church luirposes only, on the 19th of December, 1848, Bishop Antoine 
Blanc accepting. "Phe edifice was: dismantled in 1872, thereby the donation be- 
came void, the real estate reverted back to the heirs of Mrs. Duverje. By a decree 
of court rendered against the Catholic archbishop, X. J. Perche, on the 6th of 
March, 1883, the property was sold at auction Ai)ril 14th, 1883, and Louis Guillaud 
became the purchaser for S1725. TlieChurch of the Holy Name of Mary, on Verret 
street, is the successor to St. Bartholomew's Church, of Algiers, and a noble suc- 
cessor it is. 

Jacques \'illere .iiid Thomas U.rquhart were the delegates to the first constitu- 
tional convention held in this State, 1812. 

Charles J. Villere was the Whig delegate to form tlie Constitution of 1852. 

George W. Lewis was delegate to the convention of 1861, and was one of the seven- 
teen delegates who voted against the secession of the States from the Union. Wm. 
H." Seymour was the Union delegate chosen in 1864, being the youngest member of 



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the convention. Stephen B. Packard, 1878, and Wm. f'rancis Loan in 1870, were 
the respective Republican delegates elected to the convention of those years. 

Arthur Fortier was the first justice of the peace and president of the police 
jury. He presided from 1838 to 1862, with the exception of one term, tilled by 
James Aikman. The tirst suit filed in the magistrate's court was on the 27th of 
July, 1838, plaintiff was Charlotte Irma Latour, the defendants Harroldand Hughes. 
The case was appealed to the City Court of New Orleans, J. N. Duncan, judge, and 
affirmed for plaintiff. Suit was for $1 15 for the services of a slave named Tom. 
Charles \V. Morse was the first constable of the court. 

Prior to 1840 this portion of the parish was under the jurisdiction of a police 
jury, which embraced the entire Parish of Orleans. Casimer Lacoste was the first 
member to represent Orleans right bank on the Jury. On the 28th of March, 1840, 
the Legislature created a separate Police Jury tor all that portion upon the right 
bank. The Governor appointed as members thereof: P^urcy \'erret, Casimer 
Lacoste, Jean B. Olivier, Edward Fazende and Caliste \'illere. In 18,5 the Legis- 
lature enlarged their power and jurisdiction. Wm H. Seymour was the last jiresi- 
dent, having filled the position for five years by election until 1870. 

The act of 1840 was amended in 18^5, the Legislature enlarging their power 
and jurisdiction. This last act, with subsequent amendments, was the local govern- 
ing power, until the annexation to the City of New Orleans on the i6th of March, 
1870, becoming thereby the P'ifth Municipal District. 

Under the territorial government of Louisiana the right bank, under the legis- 
lative enactments of 1805, was a portion of the county of Orleans, which included 
also Plaquemines and St. Bernard. 

The first regatta took place on Sunday, June 30, 1840, opposite the Willow- 
Grove Hotel. It was a row boat race, and the prize was an elegant liquor stand, 
and resulted in a victory for the Water Witch. In 1843 there was another race be- 
tween the Algerine and the Lady of Lyons clubs, the prize, a silk flag, was award- 
ed to the latter club. This was the last race for many years. 

The Mississippi, in the spring of 1844, began to rise early and rapidly. About 
the 1st of May tha water began to decri^ase. On the 30th of May the bank above 
the point caved in, carrying with it a number of small shanties and sheds and some 
cotton. Below this spot stood the boathouses, a produ'-e store and a tavern, but no 
one for a moment supposed that these buildings were in danger. The evil was 
thought to be past, but that evening about half-past nine, while manv of the resi- 
dents were at church, the alarm was sounded that the whole point was going down 
into the river. In an instant the church was deserted; all flocked to the river just 
in time to see the roof of the old warehouse whirled away by the angry, seething 
flood into the darkness of the stormy night. 

When the morning broke not a vestage of the boathouses or the buildings near 
them remained, and on the spot where they had stood the lead found nine fathoms 
of water. 

Nothing in any of the buildings was saved, except a canary in its cage, which 
was rescued from the Algerine boathouse by Mr. Clark, one of the club. In the 
Lady of Lyons boathouse was a new raceboat, the "Claude Melnotte," and a num- 
ber of prizes, all of which were lost. So the great leather of Waters struck the 
death blow to the rowing interests of our city, and after being successfully prac- 
ticed for nearly ten years, rowing for pleasure became a thing of the i)ast about our 
shores. 

So it remained until the spring of 1869, when one April day a little white yawl 

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was launched on the old Bayou St. John, in which was the members of a new era. 
The inauguration of the Si. John Club the formation of the Pelican Club, and sub- 
sequently of the Orleans Riversides and Howards, brings us down to the celebrated 
regatta of September 14th, 1874, which occurred at Carrollton at the same min- 
ute that the bloody conflict was going on between the Metropolitan police and 
citizens on the levee, was followed almost immediately by the dissolution of the 
Louisiana State Rowing Association, under whose auspices it was given. 

More landslides took place in the river. During the year 1867 a marine ways 
with a schooner thereon was lost, and the loss of the Grand Isle depot during the 
summer of 1894, is still fresh in our memory, all of which was in close proximity to 
that sustained by the owners of the Willow Grove hotel on the memorable 30th of 
May, 1844, half a century previous. 

'!l|!iil!!lii!inill!!'''''I 

The United States Marine Hospital. 



This hospital was situated at McDonogh, just above the parish line in Jeffersoii, 
and occupied a square, measuring three hundred and fifty feet each way, which 
was enclosed by a good substantial fence. The edifice measured in front one 
hundred and sixty feet, by seventy-eight feet deep, from the side of which two 
adjuncts extended fifty feet further back, leaving sufficient room between them for 
a spacious court, immediately behind the centre of the main building. 

The whole building was laid off into three stories. It was fifty feet from the 
ground to the eaves, and one hundred and thirty-five feet to the top of the flag-staff, 
which surmounted the belvidere. It was built in the Gothic style; it was com- 
menced in 1834, but many years elapsed before final completion; when finished, 
the total cost was $130,000; it would accommodate two hundred and sixty-nine 
persons. The grounds laid out were embellished with shrubbery. As seen from 
the Mississippi river, or from the city front, the structure presented a very majestic 
appearance. It stood in a healthy position, elevated and dry, and from its great 
heighth commanded a .complete view of the river, city, surrounding country and a 
whole forest of masts from the sailing vessels on the city side, affording at once a 
delightful and a busy prospect that must have had a great tendency to cheer the 
hours of the convalescent within its walls. 

After the secession of Louisiana from the Union, the buildings were taken pos- 
session of by the government t)fficers, or provost marshal of the Confederates. In 
the grounds adjoining was establisiied powder magazines. An explosion occurred 
there during the night time, towards the close of Decembor, 1861, which was heard 
for miles around, and the entire edifices on the ground entirely destroyed. 

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii 



The New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad Com- 
pany, Now Morgan, Louisiana and Texas Railroad. 



This railroad was incoriiorated by the legislature during the session of 1853, 
by an act approved April 22d cf that year, under the No. 149, tor the purpose of 
constructing a railroad from the town of Algiers to 5ome point on tiie Sabine river, 
the boundary between Louisiana and Texas. The commissioners from Algiers 

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President. 



F. H. MITCHELL 

Sec. and Treas. 



INCORPORATED JUNE 1894. 




Successors Algiers Brewing Company, 

FIFTH DISTRICT, NEW ORLEANS, LA., 

General Offices and City Depot : 

341, 343, 345 N. DIAMOND ST., 

Opposite St. Tvlary's IVIarket. 



MANUFACTUKEKS OF THE CELEBRATED 

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were J. W. Stanton, R. F. Nichols, Leon Bernard, R. B. Sumner, John Hughes, J. 
B. OHvier, A. B. Seger and J. Thayer. The parish of Orleans, right babk, by vote 
of the tax payers and ordinances of the Police Jury, subscribed S75 000 to assist m 
the construction of the road. In the course of time every dollar was paid. 

The first office of the company was for several years at No. 75 Exchange place, 
near Bienville street. The first ofiflcers were Wm. G. Hewes, president; A. B. 
Seger, vice president; B. F. Flanders, secretary. In 1856, trains ran only to Tiger- 
ville, a distance of 66 miles, leaving the depot at Algiers every day at 8:30 a. m., 
arriving at their destination at 12:10 p. m. The fare each way was $2.50. 

The ofifice of the company was removed to the Pontalba building, corner of St. 
Peter and Decatur streets about 1859. After the city was captured by Farragut 
and Butler had assumed command, Captain A. W. Morse of the Federal forces 
was placed in full control of the entire road during May, 1862, and so remained 
until February, 1866, when all was restored to the company, by direction of the 
authorities at Washington. The company then established their ofifice in the upper 
floor of the building corner of Canal and Decatur streets, with A. B. Seger, presi- 
dent; G. W. R. Bayley, superintendent; W. Squires, secretary, who continued as 
such for several years. When the road was returned to the company it was with 
impaired tracks, small rolling stock, ruined cross ties and bridges. 

Large capital was required to rebuild and extend the road and the efforts to 
procure necessary means to pay matured interest on the bonds and to extend the 
road were utterly futile. 

The bond holders instituted suit in the L^ S. Court, and executory process 
issued. By virtue of the writ of seizure and sale directed to the LI. S. Marshal the 
road was sold to Charles Morgan on the 5th of April, 1869, for $2,050,000, and on 
31st of July, 1869, Mr. Morgan, having complied with all the conditions of the 
sale, the Marshal gave him title, and put him in possession of the lower portion of 
the original division of the road 

At a sheriff's sale about the 22d day of April, 1870, under writs from the 
Seventh District Court, of Orleans parish, against said company, also from one 
issued by the Fourth District Court. Charles Morgan became the purchaser of the 
graded road, etc., belonging to the said company beyond Brashear^ thus becoming 
the sole owner of all the road franchises and privileges formally belonging to the 
Opelousas Railroad Company. 

Thus we have traversed the records bearing thereon. Mr. Morgan placed his 
son-in-law, C. A. Whitnev and A. C. Hutchinson, an old officer ol the former Com- 
pany prior to the war, at Brashear City, as agents of th; road, and George Pandely 
as superintendent. Messrs. Morgan and Whitney having died, Mr. Hutchinson 
became president of the Morgan, Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship 
Company, successor to the old Opelousas Company: also manager of the Southern 
Pacific C' mpany, Atlantic System. 

Ii!ill1lllilllllll!nil!ll;i ■ 

The Southern Pacific Plant. 

Few people liave an idea of the magnitude of the jilaiit of the .Southern Pacific 
Company in the corporate limits of Algiers. .Standing on the riv. r front, one 
notices extensive sheds and wliarves with ships lined up in front, and looking back 
into the rear a series of buildings loom up into view. This casual glance but faintly 



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Algiers, La. 



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pictures the extent of the plant and the variety of industries which flourish 
within the lines of the company. Once within the great wharf, which stretches 
along the river front for a distance of nearly half a mile, xme begins to wonder at 
Its vastness; walking over to the depot and then to the many shops, each a separate 
plant in itself, the realization gradually dawns upon you that the square mile of 
territory covered by them contains enough to form a village of handsome propor- 
tions, and that it is not unlike the famous town ot Pullman, 111., in many respects. 
Having seen as much as you could in walking through from one building to the 
other and accompanied by one familiar with all the details of the various depart- 
ments, whose lucid explanations make clear all doubtful subjects that come under 
observation, you come to the conclusion that what you have seen has been an 
actual revelation to you and one of a most agreeable sort, if you happen to be one 
who has the industrial interests of the city of New Orleans and vicinity at heart. 
It IS the largest of its kind in the South. 

It is a picture for a skeptic to look upon and be convinced that the railroads 
of this city are not always working against the interests of the city, and that they 
are not always trying to send the city to the "demnition bow-bows" to achieve their 
own welfare regardless of that of others. Corporations are generally credited with 
having no souls, but the manner in which affairs are conducted in this plant proves 
an exception. The feeling between the employer and employed is such as is sel- 
dom seen wdiere 3000 or 4000 men are dependent on a great concern like this for 
their bread and butter. A sort of friendship seems to prevail among all. Things 
are run on a strictly business basis, however, but instead of this tending to promote 
discord, as is sometimes the result in big plants elsewhere, it has a contrary effect, 
the employees having the intelligence to appreciate the necessity for it, and know- 
ing that it is for their interest, as well as that of the companv, for if the company 
met with disaster they know full well that it would be an equal disaster for them, 
for, to tell the truth, it is the life of Algiers. It is like ihe heart of an animal — if it 
ceased to beat, if the great puls.-itions of the myriad hammer, saws and trucks 
ceased, it would be a blow from which Algiers would be many years recoverine;. 
Everybody in the town feels this, and says so without the slightest hesitation. 

All the men employed here are residents of the place; many have been in the 
company's service from a cjuarter to a third of a century. The mighty influence 
of time has, therefore, had almost as much to do with the establishment of that 
spirit of harmony among the men and the employers as the policy of fairness and 
conciliation adopted by the latter. Many, through advancing years, have almost 
worn out in the service, but whose sons and grandsons are gradually taking their 
j)laces, preference always being given them as new men are taken on. Promo- 
tions are made from employers only, and every man feels that with character, abili- 
ty and loyalty it is only a question of time in his advancement. 

Going down the river on the right bank, nearly a mile from the ferry landing, 
the first buildings of the road seen are the lumber sheds and yards, and then are 
several barn-like structures in which are stored yawls, boats, anchors, rope and 
tackle and other shipping paraphernalia. Then you reach the incline, with the 
bridge tower, where the trunsfer boats run in to discharge their bulky jjortable 
cargoes of freight cars, loaded or unloaded. This incline is a fine piece of mechan- 
ical work, being operated from the tower to suit the stage of the river, keeping the 
tracks flush with the level of those of the boats. Stretching along to the left, al- 
most as far as the eye can reach, there are the great wharf sheds, while from the 



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Household •/ Goods, 



SOLD FOR 



Cash and on Installment Plan. 



429 PATTERSON ST, 



■AND. 



222 MORGAN STREET, 



ALGIERS. LA. 



41 




T. J. MOOXEY, 



42 

ipeo's Co-Opefative flssociatioo Dfug Stoie, 

W. j. HOSEA, Registered Pharmacist, Manager, 

Pure Drugs, Medicines, 
Cheniicals and Fancy Goods, 

PRESCRIPTIONS AND PATENT MEDICINES AT STRICTEY 
.^^ C U T - R ^ X E 3 . __^ 

Corner Olivier and Alix Streets, Fifth District. 



The Original Gut. Rate Drag Store. 

STONE'S COUGH SYRUP, 

■^'^For Cougfhs and Colds. 

PEEPdEED O.VLY BY VS. ^^ 



and Children's 

FINE FOOTWEAR, 



_ALvSO. 



Gent's Calfskin Shoes Made to 
Order For^^^p^ $2.v30, 



GO TO THE 



[Toefit ^I]oe %\oYt. 



W. SURQl, Successor to ED. SCHHITT. 



43 

street where you are standing the masts of the many steamers lying beside them 
loading and discharging their cargoes, rise to quite a height above the sheds. 
Right here is the great jomt which connects the two systems of the Southern 
Pacific Company — the railroad whieh extends from New Orleans to the state of 
Oregon in the northwest, and the steamship lines, which run to New York and 
Central American ports and Havana. 

To the right there extends the series of buildings which rise to different heights 
and dot the vast area at intervals for half a mile back. The first to attract atten- 
tion is the old passenger depot, now used as a coach shed. 

This is noticeable for its picturesqueness. The front and sides are covered 
with a close-clmging vine, which completely obscures the brick work, but it is kept 
constantly trimmed around the windows, while in bold relief stand out the words: 
"Southern Pacific Railroad, New Orleans to Portland, 3254 Miles," in gold letters 
forming a fine contrast to the dark green background. This is a spacious struc- 
ture, filled with passenger coaches, sleepers, ttc, and also contains several offices, 
including that of the division superintendent, and a large force of clerks are at 
work. 

Then you strike the machine shops and foundry. This is a great brick build- 
ing, where, du'-ing the busy season, the disciples of Vulcan hold high carnival and 
the music of the hammer and the anvil sounds from early morn till the fall of eve- 
ning. The facilities are such that everything can be made from the finest steel 
spring to a locomotive ready for service. One of the features of this shop is a 
monster trip-hammer, worked by steam, which can pound an axle into shape in 
two minutes or split a hair, so fine is its mechacism and so massive. Another big 
piece of machinery is a lathe, which is the foundation of every machine shop, but 
this one is of the mastodon species and is used in turning and finishing the large 
steamship shafts, etc. 

Here was seen the laying oi" the foundation, so to speak, for the building of 
locomotives. The forward and driving wheels were being placed in position. All 
the other parts which enter into its construction were strewn around, ready to be 
appropriately placed. On all sides were the usual other fittings of a machine shop 
only on a scale far larger than ordinarily exists ekewhere. Several tracks run into 
the place, some for the accommodation of trucks and locomotives to be repaired 
and built, and others for the moving of heavy work. 

Another great building, several hundred feet long, and almost as wide, not far 
removed from the machine shops and foundry, is the carshop where passenger and 
sleeping coaches are repaired and built. It is practically a great shed, with several 
tracks running through it and open at both ends. Here was a mail car with half 
its side taken off, and around were a gang sawing and fitting the strips of poj^lar, 
while other were nailing them on. A little father on was a passenger coach on 
jackscrews, its trucks having been sent over to the machine shop to be rebuilt. 
Yonder was a car having a new roof put on, and so on throughout the shed. 
Among the appliances in use here are hydraulic jackscrews, devised by Foreman 
Hilderbrandt. 

In another part of the yards you come to the paint shops, where the finishing 
touches are put on. Here the coaches are sand-papered and painted and var- 
nished until their sides are smooth as glass and shine like burnished silver. There 
is also here in one of the departments a silver-plating plant, where all the silver- 
work on the coaches is renewed. 



(Vind Manddllnps, wilh Instruction Books, from S3. 00 parh, upward?, at Grunowald's. 



44 
WILLIAM G. COVLE. CHARLES G. COYLE. 



V^^ O. COYLE & (g. 



Coal and Towin 



TUG BOATS: BRANGfi YARDS: 

B. D. Wood. Baton Rooge, La. 
Ella Andrews. Plaquemine, La. 
Mamie Goyle. 
Captain Chamberlain. 



Landing and Retail Yard: 

GOR. RIVER AND SLIDELL AVENUE. 



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A little walk brings you to the molding and planing mill, where all the lumber 
is put into, shape for use. This is a large building divided into two floors, the 
lower one being devoted to the heavy work, and is fitteil up with all the appurten- 
ances of a full-fledged mill. There are planers of all sorts and sizes, saws, groov- 
ing machines, etc. Up stairs there are a variety of industries all hived together as 
a hajipy family. In one corner there is the upholsterer, who renews and makes 
cushions and mattresses for the sieeping cars and passenger coaches. Over in the 
opposite corner is the cabinet-maker, who does all the fine work on the furnishing 
of the cars. Then a short distance from him is another silver plating plant. Fur- 
ther on you come to a section devoted to the man whose business is to resilver 
plate-glass mirrors, with which all first-class coaches are sumptuously fitted. Then 
the entire center of the floor, taking up a space of 200 square feet, is divided into 
two sections, one on the lower side containing a quantity of steamship equipments, 
from an anchor to a dinner bell, and the other to a storehouse for patterns, of 
which there are said to be fully $50,000 worth. Over in another corner is the office 
of Draftsman Henmng, who also has charge of the patterns. These patterns are 
of every conceivable piece of casting, car wheels, pulleys, axles, axle boxes and 
even to anchors. When any of these articles are wanted and they do not happen 
to be in stock, the pattern is sent down to the foundry and in a short time it is 
cast, finished off and ready for use. Mr. Henning has a force of subordinates, and 
under his care are preyared the plans for any piece of work wnich the company 
may desire, from a locomotive to a new car step 

Still pursuing the journey through that hive of industry, for by this time you 
come to realize that you have undertaken a journey, you enter the roundhouse — 
the huge stable where the locomotives are stalled, cleaned and given minor repairs 
and kept until necessity calls them out for a spin. In this division there are about 
sixty-five of the iron monsters, from the smallest switch engine to the imposing 
90-ton passenger locomotives which annihilate space at the rate of sixty miles an 
hour. Foreman J. P. Nolan has the care of all of them. 

On the way to the repair car shed you pass blacksmith shops, an oilhouse, 
where all the oil used on the road and ships is stored, and isolated from every other 
building, and a sandhouse, where the sand for the locomotives is dried out by a 
heating process and stored for use as the occasion requires. The repair car shed 
is an immense structure with 2000 feet of track under cover, and four deep. Here 
freight cars are made over by the hundreds, and when working the full force can 
be made at the rate of five a day, all-completed and painted. Parallel with this 
building is a platform where is stored all the iron work used in the construction 
and repair of these cars. 

Away beyond is the lumber green, where all the rough lumber used in the 
different departments is stored away for future use. There is one other building 
which comes into view on the return trip to the river front, which had been over- 
looked. That is the general storehouse, where steamship supplies, tools, nails pul- 
leys, and in fact all sorts of iron and wood work are kept. It is really a big hard- 
ware store, and there are clerks who furnish to anyone with the proper order from 
the superintendent any article desired. Up stairs is a large loft, where the steam- 
ers' sails are made and repaired 

The journey back allows you to notice the vast area of ground co\-ered by 
tracks, which, at this dull season of the year, are covered with empty freight cars. 



Guitars and every other Musical Instrument sold cheap at Grunewald's. 



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Frantz & Opitz, 

JEWELERS ;. v 



AND 



WATCHMAKERS. 

Dianionds, Watches, 
Jewelry and Silverware, 

No. 17 BOURBON STREET, 

NEW ORLEANS, LA. 

APPOINTED RAILROAD WATCH INSPECTORS. 



Represented in ALGIERS by 

Mr. N. B. HUTTON. 



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M. A. MORSE. 



4S 

I JF^ je: , 

Iron Keijcc Works, 
823 MAGAZINE STREET. 



-j--i"*--e"«'-?"^-j"«-e"f-? 



3IR0N FENCES CHE AP AS WOOD.r 

CHAS. LUZIGAN, 



-DEALER IN 



Beef, Pork, Veal and Sausages. 

ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. 
-^.^Stall iri St. Jolm J^Ietrkiet..^,^, 

THOS. HARDING, 

DEALEI.^ I>Nr 

Wood, CoaL Brick, Lime, Sand, Cement, 
Flatboat Lumber and Patent Fire Kindler, 

New No. 208 HOMER ST., 

Hauling c.f All Kinds. ALGIERS, LA. 

H. N. UMBAOH, 

DEALER IN 

Domestic and Havana, Cips, Tobacco, Smobs' Articles, 

No. 437 PATTERSON STREET, 
ALGIERS, LA. 



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the majority awaiting repairs, the freight repair shed being about the busiest por- 
tion of the grounds now. 

Reaching the river front again, before entering the wharf sheds, you observe 
on the right three large buildings. These are devoted to the steamship lines. One 
is the storehouse where supplies, rope and tackles and other such articles are kept 
to supply immediate demands. Just adjoining is the steamship blacksmith and 
boiler shops and carpenter shed, and then is the boiler house, which supplies the 
steam for the various purposes needed on the wharf. 

All these buildings so far described are of brick or iron, and of the best work- 
manship, planned and built by the employes of the company. A most noticeable 
feature of the whole thing is the absolute cleanliness which prevails everywhere. 
Every piece of machinery is as clean as a pin and shines like a new dollar, and 
even the floors would do credit to a well kept dwelling. The grounds and all the 
surroundings are in this conditi(>n, while here and there are bright groups of flowers, 
indicating so plainly that something besides mere labor is thought of, and that 
some one in the company's service has an eye to beauty. 

Once on the wharf, Cajnain Morse, the su{)erintendent, undertakes the courtesy 
of acting as guide, and all of the interesting facts are pointed out. To begin with, 
it might be stated that this wharf shed (for it is covered from one end to the other) 
IS almost half a mile long, and on an average about a hundred feet wide. Stand- 
ing at the upper end of it your range of vision will hardly reach to the other end. 
And what a sight it is when there are several ships loading and unloading at the 
same time! When working the full force on this wharf there are nearly a thousand 
men hustling and bustling and moving about trucking the masses of freight to and 
fro, and they look like bees in a hive. 

At this end is the sugar shed, where the vessels from Havana tie up and un- 
load their cargoes of Cuban sweetness during the sugar season on the Ever Faith- 
ful Isle. Here there are tracks cut into the wharf, and the floors of the cars are 
flush with It, so that the cars can be loaded almost from the ship's side. In this 
manner there is provision for loading forty cars at the same time. Right here it 
might be well to say something of the system of eHvators in use in unloading 
ships. It is to be found nowhere else in the United States, except in New York, 
and has been in use in Algiers for the past fifteen years, where it has greatly facili- 
tated the work. At intervals, corresponding to the various portholes of the ships, 
there are inclines in the wharf which are raised and lowered automatically to suit 
the stage of the water and the level of the portholes, and on one side of each of 
these inclines is an endless carrier running from the ship's side to the level of the 
wharf. Those are operated by a lever, the speed being about that of a man on a 
slow trot. A man rolls his truck-load (jf freight from the ship's side onto the car- 
rier, and is carried up to the wharf without the slightest exertion on his part, and 
when he reaches the top the truck rolls off and is given an impetus which permits 
him to roll it along the level without much waste of strength. These carriers are 
located for two ships' length along the wharf. 

Passing on you come to the New York shed, and then to the Havana forward- 
ing and receiving section, and then to the Central American section. The facili- 
ties are such that in a rush a ship can be loaded and unloaded at the same time 
without the slightest confusion. The men are all experienced in the work, and 
know their duties perfectly, and go about them with a system that is surprising to 



\Vf rent, store, sell, l)Uy, move, repair, tune, polish pianos. Grunewald's. 



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Berwick Lumber Co. 

LIMITED, 

COR. CLIO AND FRERET STRHHTS, 



DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS OF 



Sash, Doors, Blinds, 

Mouldings and all House 

Finishing" Material. 

STORE AND OFFICE FIXTURES, 
COUNTERS, SHELVING, 
SHOWCASES A SPECIALTY. 

HORACE BROWNELL, 

Manager. 



Cypress Lumber and Shingle Mills 



-AT- 



BERWICK CITY, LA. 



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an outsider, white and blacks working together in perfect harmony. Eight ships a 
week can be cared for when the occasion demands. 

Further down the wharf, near the lower end, there is a sort of storehouse 
during the summer season, and still further the space is utilized as a carpenter 
shop. The shed is provided with every precaution against tire, there being a thor- 
ough system of hose running all through it, besides water barrels and extinguishers 
at intervals. Light is provided by electricity, the company owning their own 
equipment, but securing the current from the Algiers Ice and Electric Light 
Company. 

Beyond the wharf is the shipyard, where the El Mozo was built, but at present 
it is but an empty space, there being no boats in course of construction. There are 
two boats lying up against the wharf, undergoing a thorough overhauling, one of 
them being a large tug from Galveston, which, besides having her woodwork re- 
newed, will have a new and powerful set of boilers put into her. 

It is the only railroad entering New Orleans that maintains its principal offices 
and shops within the city limits, where all the railroad repairs are made. In addi- 
tion to this, all the repairs of the great fleet of steamships are made in Algiers, and 
every dollar expended for this purpose is put m circulation in this city and not in 
New York, the Northern end of the line. This enables a very large number of 
men to tind daily employment year after year at good wages. 

These steamships, together with the 2500 miles of railroad from Algiers to San 
Francisco, form the greatest through line for the transportation of freight from 
New York and all Atlantic seaboard points to San Francisco and beyond that ex- 
ists to-day. The proof of this assertion is the fact that from 80 to 85 per cent, of 
all the freight between the Atlantic seaboard and the Pacific coast is shipped over 
it in the face of the competition of the several lines from New York to San Fran- 
cisco. This large percentage has been maintained for years against the most active 
Competition. The reason for it is that the time was made by the Southern Pacific 
route in several days faster time than that n»ade by any other route. 

The steamships reach New Orleans almost at a stated hour, indeed with 
nearly the regularity of a railroad train. In twelve hours the entire cargo is 
loaded in cars, and as fast as a trainload is ready an engine is coupled on and the 
train speeds on its way towards the Golden Gate, stopping only at terminals to 
change engines. The entire through line being under the same control, a decree 
of discipline and elificiency is attained that would not be possible under other cir- 
cumstances, and this enables the Southern Pacific to make much better time than 
any of its Northern competitors, to maintain a great through line, landing traffic 
with regularity and dispatch and to distance its rivals by several days in time be- 
tween New York and San Francisco. 

Altogether, around the shops and wharf, there are employed during the busy 
season fully 3500 men, most of whom are residents of Algiers, and many have been 
in the employ of the company for many years. With such an institution in their 
midst, and giving the majority of her population bread and butter, is it any wonder 
that the people of Algiers appreciate the Southern Pacific Road? 



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8UCCKSSOR TO 



JNO. LARRIEU, Lessee St. John Market, 



-DEALKK IN- 




ts, Vegetables, fruits and Poultf|. 



BOATS AND SHIPS SUPPLIED ON SHORT NOTICE. 



Leave all Orders in the l^ox at Lessee's Office and they will Meet 
with Prompt Attention. 




.)o 







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JOHN A. WOOD. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 

Steamboat, Steamship, Plantations, Rice Mills, Cottom. 
Presses, Foundries. 

DEALERS AND FAMILIES SUPPLIES. 



MAIN OFFICE: 
43 Garondelet Street. 

COAL YARD: 

Foot of Race Street on 
Levee. 

TELEPHONE 576. 

New Orleans, La. 




PAUL M. SCHNEIDAU 



The Grand Isle Road Orevjige Blossom Route. 



Ajiother railroad which has its terminus and the main portion of its plant in 
JVIgiers, is the New Orleans, Fort Jackson and Grand Isle Railroad, which has 
done much to add to the prosperity of this little burg. It was put in operation in 
1890, and has never ceased, except when washouts caused a temporary suspension. 
Its depot is one of the first things to attract attention when you land in the town, 
and before the recent caving in of the river bank, which carried into the river 
more than three-quarters of the structure. It was an imposing looking building, 
and even now it is a credit to the place. Going up the cnider walk for a distance 
•of 50 feet, there stretches out a well-kept garden which is quite a relief to the eye. 
The property of the company extends for several scjuares along the river front, but 
owing to the continued encrrachments of the Father of Waters, great expense is 
incurred in trying to prevent further sloughing off into the river. 

Further up the river, above the depot, is the roundhouse and machine shops, a 
aeat little structure, amply large to suit the needs of the road. Altogether the 
road employs about 150 men, who are all residents of Algiers. The road is not in 
■acompleted state by any means, as it has two objective points— one is Grand Isle, 
^which its nanje implies, and the other is the old (juarantine and Yort Jackson, 
down on the right hank ot the Mississippi. There has not been anv disposition to 
push the work of construction, owing to the deiiressioii 111 the moii-.-v markets for 
the past year or two, but there is no telling how soon the work will be undertaken 
and pushed to completion. So far there has been about $750,000 of capital invested 
in the. road, and it might be well to mention that every nickel of the capital stock 
is owiied ni the State of Louisiana. 

Thtre is one particularly noticeable feature cf this road, and that is that its 
equipment is all of the very best and most modern that there is in the city of New 
Orleans. The coaches are all eciuipped with imjiroved lavratiMMes and have cane 
•seats, which tend greatly to the comfort of the traveler. The track is standard 
^uage, 60-pound steel rails, and as smootn as a floor. 

The road is [laying particular attention to the development of the truck farms 
on the lower coast, as these products are from two to four weeks earlier than on 
the other roads which transport them to the nordidn markets, which means a great 
deal. 

A doul)le daily train service is furnished the traveling public who have occa- 
sion to go down the coast at the present season of the year, while in the winter 
time four trains are sent out each day. Mr. J. S. Landry is the superintendent and 
.has earned the esteem of all the emjiloyes. 



The Dry Docks. 

Almost as long as Algiers has been in existence, or, rather, ever since the ship- 
ping of the city of New Orleans has attained any proportions, Algiers has been the 
place where vessels were wont to go for docking and repairs, and each year the 
■business has grown in proportion to the increase in the shipping of this port. 

The first dry dock was constructed in 1837 at Paducah, Ky., and brought to 
-Algiers the same year. A company was created by an act of the State Legislature 

,0.00(1 (li^'counts given on everything at (Jrunewahl's Music House. 



56 

Best Value 



For Your Money 

Weber, Emerson, Hardman^ 
Ludwig, Standard 








5 

Oil. Easy Teriins. 

JUNIUS HART, 

1001 Canal St., New Orleans.^ 

PETER~~KRAMME, ~ 

- DEALER IN- 

[family -(- (groceries, 

A]N^I3 SUPPLIES, 

Butter, Cheese, Beef, Pork, Lard, Flour^ 

Teas. Wines, Liquors, Hay, Corn 

Oats and Bran, 

CORNER EL)[[R1 AND EVELINA STREETS,. 

ALaiEES, LA. 

Sole AiC^'iit for tlie Famous f^lniira Social Club Ciffars.. 



tmder the name of the New Orleans Hoating Dry Dock Company, who became 
owners and managers thereof. The capital stock was $200,000. Captain L. Ma t 
thewes was president; G. E. Richardson, secretary and Gregory Burns, superinten- 

The second dock was built ni Cairo, 111., in 1840. It was bought by Captain 
James Stockton for account of himself and John Hughes. They subsequently 
transferred it to Bailey & Hughes. It proved a failure, and they destroyed it. 

The thiid dock was brought from Pearlington, Miss., m 1843 hy Captain Bailey 
and Peter Marcy, and was sunk shortly after. It was on the same principle as the 
Ocean Dock, with gates at the mds. 

The Louisiana Dock was the fourth put into commission, and was built bv the 
Louisiana Dock Company— J. P. Whitney, president; John Hughes, Francois Val- 
fette and Mark Thomas, managers. It was a balance dock, closed at one end, and 
t the other there was a gate which was closed when raising craft. 

The fifth was built in 1848 by Captain Bailey and Peter Marcy. 

The next year the Pelican Dock was built, and it was the largest ever erected 
in Algiers. It was a sectional dock and had the capacity to lift a vessel 400 feet 
long. In 1857 it docked the steamer Eclipse, which was the largest, finest and 
&e aviest steamboat that, either before or since the war, has floated in the Missis- 
sippi river. The dock was built by Charles Robinson, Mackie & Hyde, and was in 
service a long time before meeting with the usual fate. 

In 1854 the seventh dock was built by the Crescent Docking Company, George 
W. Hynson, president, and Thus. Hasam and James Anderson, managers. It was 
called the Crescent. These parties subsequently controlled the Pelican Dock. 

The eighth dock built was the Louisiana No. ^, by John Hughes and Francois 
Vallette. It was 265 feet long and 85 feet wide, and was built in 1855. 

This year also saw the building of the ninth dock by Hyde & Mackie, which 
was a large section dock. 

The tenth was built the following year b/ Mooney iS; Geprd. In 1856 the 
Fourth Louisiana dock was built by Hughes & \'allette, the Louisiana No. 3 havino- 
met with disaster. This one was 280 feet long by 89 feet wide, with a lifting power 
of 3500 tons. 

The fourth Louisiana dock was built in i8jo, 111 Pearlington, by Captain 
Janies Martin, and was named the Atlantic. 

The thirteenth dock was bi.ilt from the hull of the steamboat Illinois, by Tilton 
& Kalk, in 1863 or 1^65. 

The Southern dock was buiit in the west and went to work in 1864, under the 
management of D. O'Connor. 

The Vallette dock was the fifteenth dock l)uilt in Algiers, and was put in op- 
eration in 1866, owned and built by the Vallette Dry Dock Company and was sunk 
several years ago. It was built across the lake in 1865 and completed in 1866. 

The sixteenth dock was the Ocean, built in 1866, first owned by Mackie, Fol- 
lette & Field, then by A. & O. I. McLellan and now by the McLellan Dock Com- 
pany. It was towed down from Cairo in 1865, as an old barge, carrying 5000 bales 
of hay. 

The seventeenth dock was also started in 1866, but was not put in operation 
until 1867. It was bought from the original owners by J. \V. Black, who sold it to 
Major Robertson in 1888. It is the Marine dry dock. 

The eighteenth dock was the Good Intent, which started to work in 1867, and 

You'll save Money by Purchasing at Grunewald's, 715 Canal street. 



58 

THE FIRE 
MADE US RICH, 

but we are not stuck up for that, and want your trade same as: 
ever. Nor are we stuck up because we have a neat store, and 
the most Complete Stock of Genuine Patent Medicines, First- 
Class Perfumery and Toilet Articles in Algiers. 
JI^* In compounding Physicians' Prescriptions we use Pare,. 
Reliable Drugs only, and guarantee competent service and. 
Lowest Prices. 

Graduate Pharmacist and Chemist, 

COR. PELICAN AVE. AND SEGIN ST., ALGI ERR , LA. 

FOR A GOOD SIGN 



WALTER THOMAS, 



STEVE G. VTALDEN, 
Xl^c Paver. 

Schillinger and Brick Curbing a Specialty. 
LEAVE ORDERS AT DEMOCRAT OFFICE. 



M. S. MAHONEY, 

DEALER IN 

Fancy and Staple Groceries, 

WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, and CIGARS, 

Corner Alix and Powder Streets, Algiers, La., 

OPF-OSIXE WOODS' DI^Y DOCK. 



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60 

EDWARD L. HURLBl'RT. CHARLES W. HURLBrBT,. 

l^ROPRrETOl^S. 



Steam Dyeing and Cleaning Co., 



OFFICE 



No, 329 St. CHARLES STREET, New Orleans, 



WORKS 



^t\[ District Cor. McLellanYard and Patterson St 

ALL KINDS OF GLEANING AND DY£iNG. 

A First-Class Tailor Shop Connected for Repairino- Gents' Clothing. 
SPECML :iTTEyTIO\ TO EXPRESS ORDERS. 

J. E. HUCKIXS, ~~ 

Wall Paper Decorator and Desioiiei; 

230 BOUNY STREET, 

Estimates Furnished. ALGIERS, LA. 

DR. A. KING, 

'Khysician and J^urgeon, 

OfFICt AND li[SID[NC[; COR, PELICAi IMW OLIVIER SL, 

Office Hours Erom i to J P. M. ' Algiers, La> 



is owned by the Red River Line. 

The nnieteenth was the Louisiana dry dock, and owned by MeLellan, Brady &: 
Cothell. It was lost in 1881. 

John F. Follet.e and Captain O. F. \allette built a lar^^e dock in Algiers in 
1856 for use in the port of Havana, Cuba, where it was towed safely after comple- 
tion. It was 300 feet long, 90 feet wide, with a lifting capacity of 5000 tons and 
sheathed with a very heavy coating of metal. It is in existence yet. 

With this cursory glance into the past history of the docks of Algiers, a more 
extended look into the present state of that industry is in order. The first dock 
which attracts your attention as you go down the river is the Good Intent, owned 
by the Good Intent Dry Dock Company, of which Captain Charles P. Truslow is 
president and general manager. It is not of as imposing proportions as the other 
docks of Algiers, but it does its share of the business and employs upward of a 
score of men. The boats of the Red River Line are all docked here, as w^ell as 
tugs and all classes of small boats. 

The next is the Marine dock. It is the largest one in tliis section of the 
country at i)resent, but its maximum capacity is only 1500 tons. The dock is 220 
feet over all, but has docked the Clearwater, which is 250 feet long, the largest 
vessel which has ever been 111 it. 

There are two engines, one on either side which can pump the largest vessels 
dry m less than two hours. The dock is what is known as a box, which, when 
ready to take on a ship, is filled with water and sunk, by means of opening valves. 
Then the vessel glides into the dock and when in position, the sliding blocks are 
pulled together, the shores let down, and then the pumps set to work to empty the 
water out of the dock. As it gradually rises out of the water, the shores and block 
are pulled taut, and by the time the ship is half out of the water she is as firmly 
fixed as if she were on the ways. 

This company employs from }o to qo men as the occasion demands. 

The Ocean dry dock is owned by the MeLellan Dock Company, and is about 
three squares further down the river. It is very similarto the dock described above, 
is 204 feet long and 50 odd feet wide on the floor. It lias been in operation since it 
was transformed from a large boat to a dock in 1865. The maximum capacity is 
about 1000 tons, and employs an average of 30 or 40 men the year round. Among 
the regular vessels taken care of here are those of the Interstate Transportation 
Company. It came into the possessitm of the jiresent owners about eighteen years 
ago. The first boat ever docked by it was the blockade runner Lillian, near the 
close of the war. She overhung the dock and undocked herself during the night. 

Away up the river, on the other side of the ferry landing, is the little dock of 
Wood, Sclmeidau i!i: Co., where their tugs and others which may so desire, undergo 
the necessary repairs. This dock is worked by hand. 

The docking business of Algiers is a flourishing industry ami gives employ- 
ment to upwards of 200 or more men, which, considering the size of the town, is a 
most important feature of its industrial welfare. 



Best PiaiKJS at Grunewald's. Easiest terms at Grunewald's, 715 Canal street. 



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B^x^EjS. X . 



Our Bread is Peerless 
in Quality and. De- 
licious iu Flavor. 

TRY IT AND BE CONVINCED. 



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Nos. 715 to 725 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET, 



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Ship Building. 

The ship-building industry of Algiers is one whose past is more glorious than 
its present, though its future gives promise of greater development than it has ever 
attained. Algiers is famous for its shipyards, but to walk along the levee a stranger 
would never suspect it. Many large boats were built over here. The latest being 
the Enterprise, in 1880, by the Southern Pacific Company. She was a monster 
transfer boat, and was built from the hull up, on the river bank near the great 
wharf. The same company also built the tug El Mozo two or three years ago. 
She was designed and constructed under the supervision of Captain Morse. 

Richard Cogan's shipyard is situated at No. r Patterson street, on the river 
front. It was formerly known as Mahoney's shipyard, but was bought out by the 
present owner's father some time ago, and who had been in business for thirty years 
or more. It is within a stone's throw of the ferry landing, and, unless you went 
around by the front way and peered within, you would never suspect that it was a 
shipyard. There you see a barn-like structure about 75 feet long and 40 feet wide, 
with an open space to the river. In here Mr. Cogan, with his half dozen assistants, 
builds, all kinds of small craft from 50-foot pleasure boats to lo-foot skiffs. A good 
portion of his business is building lighters forthe Central American trade. 




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Other Industries. 

The Algiers Waterworks and Electric Light Company is a comparatively new- 
institution in Algiers, and has flourished from its incipiency. It was put in opera- 
tion in 1892, and is located on the square bounded by Elmira, Thayer, Pelican and 
Pacific avenues. It supplies nearly all the ice used m Algiers and electric lights 
for commercial purposes, also water for all. The capital invested is somewhere in 
the neighborhood of $85,000, and from twelve to fifteen men are given continuous 
employment. In ice-making the anhydrous ammonia absorption process is in use, 
in which the gas is set free from its water solution by heat, is condensed, expanded 
and then reabsorbed by the water. There are two lo-ton machines, invented by 
Thoens & Gerdes, of New Orleans, and the plant in its entirety is of home produc- 
tion, and exceeds its guaranteed output by 25 per cent. Each machine consists of 
a retort, exchanger, absorber, condenser, cooler, ammonia pump, rectifier and freez- 
ing tank. There are 300 molds, each holding 105 pounds of ice. Six to seven 
pounds of ice are made to every pound of coal used, and the molds use 250 gallons 
of cooling water per minute. The water is from an artesian well 840 feet deep, is 
■condensed and rendered tasteless and odorless. The main pump has a capacity of 
400 gallons per minute. An 85-horse power boiler supplies the steam. There is a 
4600 electric light dynamo, which completes the plant. Everything is as neat and 
clean as a pin, and th plant is modernly fitted up throughout. Mr. Foster Olroyd 
is the superintendent. 

The Algiers saw mill is the only one in the place, and has been established 
for about fifteen years. It is located on the river front, about midway between two 
large docks, and gives steady employment to about thirty men the year round. It 
saws up about 1,500,000 feet of timber a year, besides the supplies received by 
rail. It occupies about 300 feet of the front and runs back some distance. The 
special features of the business is supplying the steamship trade with spars, masts, 
derricks, booms and general boat timbers. It is a distinct business, and this mill 
has a monopoly of it in New Orleans. The local trade is supplied wdth house lum- 
ber of all kinds as well. The proprietors are Messrs. Peter S Lawton and Albert 
E. Hotard. 

A mile up the river is the Security Brewing Company's plant, a modern brick 
structure, fully equipped, and having a capacity of 40,000 barrels a year. The 
building was erected in 1891 and the brewery put into operation, but it met with 
financial reverses and was placed in the hands of a receiver, who on July 21 last 
turned it over to the new owners, some parties from St. Louis, who intend to make 
many improvements and supply the entire trade of Algiers in a short time. They 
claim to supply the bulk of it now, and are even reaching after C ty trade, having 
a depot in New Orleans. About forty-five men are regularly employeii. The 
capital stock of the reorganized Company is $150,000. Superintendent Henry 
Reninger is the "brau meister," and his brew of the amber-tinted nectar is quite 
delicious. 



See the lovely toned KROEGER PIANO at GRUNEWALD'S. It's Durable. 



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For personal or printed information, Time Tables, Rates, Tickets, Sleeping Car 
Reservations and matter descri{)tive ot Mexico and California Resorts, 
address the nearest of the following Representatives: 
NPW YORK ^ ^^' Hawley, Ass'tGen'lTraffic Manager, / 349 Broadway (!s: i Battery 
INbW YUKft. -^ L_H. Nutting, Eastern Passenger Agent \ Place (Washington Bldg. 
BOSTON. -E. E. Currier, New England Agent, 9 State Street. 

PHILADELPHIA. (■ p- j'/IV^'^'V ^p"V ,. ,y , ^ '- m South Third Street 
\ E. 1). Harrington,! raveling Pass. Agent, S -tV 

BALimORE, MD.—B. B. Barber, Agent, 209 East German Street. 

BUFFALO, N. Y. — W. J. Burg, Traveling Passenger Agent, Elhcott Square. 

SYRACUSE, N. Y. — F. T. Brooks, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, 129 

South Franklin Street. 

PITTSBURG, PA. — Geo. A. Herring, Agent, 201 Telephone Building, 7th Avenue. 

CINCINNATI. — W. A. Connor, Commercial Agent, Commerce Building. 

CHICAGO.—W. G. Neimyer, Gen'l Western Freight and Pass. Agent, 238 Clark St. 

ST. LOUIS, MO. — \'. B. Primm, Acting Connnercial Agent, 222 North Fourth Street. 

T. H. GOODMAN, General Passenger and Ticket Ag-ent, San Francisco, Cal. 

S. F. B. MORSE, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, New Orleans, La. 

Close and Direct Connections Made with all Lines Entering 

NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



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142 CANAL STREET, 

New Number 8io, 
NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



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— FOR — 

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Thermometers, Barometers, Opera, Marine 
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 




I I 




:and:- 



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I45 CARONDELET ST., 

New Orleans, La. 



AGENTS: 



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Higti Grade Cocoas and Chocolates, 

SAN KKANCTSCO. 



"ALWAYS ON TOP" 
With the Finest Wines and Liquors. 

THE 

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N. L. QORnAN, 

Proprietor, 

Cor. Moro-an Ave, and Bouny St., 
OPPOSITE CANAL STREET PERR! LANDING, 

ALGIERS, LA. 



LEONARD MEYER. 



E. H. MARES. 



Meyei & Maies, 
PANTS 




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UP-STAIRS, 

NEW ORLEANS, LA, 



Contracts Solicited. 



69 

There is a street car line in Algiers running from the ferry landing to Gretna 
which is owned by Captain Pickles, and it is a great convenience to the residents 
of the town as well as those residing above. The ferry service cannot be omitted 
for it is one of the greatest necessities of Algiers, and keep in close touch with 
New Orleans. Captain Pickles seems to have filled the wants of the people in 
that regard. He has given us the best ferry system we ever had since the first 
steam ferry in 1828. Capt. Alex. Halliday, his superintendent, always courteous 
and obliging. Is constantly on the alert, and is truly the right man in the right 
place. 



A New Station for the Southern Pacific was Opened November 

27th, 1895. 



The beautiful station was opened to the use of the public that morniU'T, when 
train No. 21 west-bound came across the river on the steam transfer Endeavor, 
Not one hitch occurred and the entire apparatus worked admirably. When the 
signal was given that the transfer was ready to deliver its load of cars to the 
station proper, the engine gave a loud blast of its whistle and then the first passen- 
ger train ever under the roof of the new station climbed up the bridge. Hundreds 
of people were standing about to see it enter the station, and it was plain that they 
looked upon the event with delight. Soon afterwards the train was ready to pro- 
ceed westward. 

Not long after the outgoing train had left, the echo of an engine whistle was 
heard some distance out the road, and in a few minutes the local passenger train 
from Lafayette, No. 54, due at 10:48 a. m., rounded into the station "on the dot." 
The passengers aboard knew that something unusual had occurred, else they 
would have been pulled int^o the old station. Hence, nearly every passenger on 
the train got off and took a glance at the new station, all pronouncing it an im- 
mense improvement over the old order of things, with the facilities for rapid 
trans't, for which the Southern Pacific is noted. No. 51 was soon ready to cross 
the river to New Orleans station. The whistle was blown, the passengers boarded 
the coaches and then the train glided down the incline on to the transfer boat, 
which drew back out of the ways and was shortly afterward landed on the east 
hank of the river. There were no ceremonies accompanying the opening of the 
public. 

The new station is a model one, perhaps the handsomest in any Southern city. 
It is a frame structure with corrugated roofs. The entire inside is of oak, varnished, 
while the outer walls are painted tastefully. The station occupies the space be- 
tween Elmira and Vallette streets, on the levee, and is about 300 feet long and 50 
feet in height. The width is 75 feet. Running through the station there are four 
tracks with switches leading to the incline. This is worked automatically by 
hydraulic pressure, and when the river is low the incline lowers. When there is a 
rise in the river the incline raises. Between the tracks is laid concrete gravel, and 
the platforms are on either side of them. Leading to the incline is the ticket office 
and baggage-room. Altogether it is a modern and complete railroad station, and 
surpasses anything yet built of its kind in this City. 

Buy what you want in the Music and Piano line from GRUNEWALD. 



Eureka Homestead Society, 

323 BARONNH STREET, Next to Corner Union Street, 

ORGANIZED, 2ND DECEMBER, 1884. 
$187,500 LOANED ON HOMtS IN ALOIERS. 

1 189 Shares, $594,500 Held in Algiers. 



^!£ 



Earnings from 
8 per cent, to 
28 per cent, 
per annum ! 




^JL 



1,450,000 

Capital Stock 
Sub scribed 
For .... 



p. J. MAGUIRE, 
President, tureka Homestead Society. 

TWO SERIES MATURED AND PAID OFF. 

SERIES "A" Earned a profit of $2^1.69 per Share of $500, or S27S.31 paid in 

Monthly, an average Profit of nearly 17 per cent, per annum. 
SERIERS "B" Earned a profit of S205.50 per b'hare of S5C0, or S294.50 paid in 
monthly; an aver.iire I'jrofit of nearly 14 '< per cent, per annum. 
$2.50 Pef Share of $500 per Month, is all you pay. Siooo costs $5.00 per 
month oidy until you borrow. I'hen Siooo costs you Init Sio per month. 

$458,000.00 IN REAL ESTATE GIVES ABSOLUTE SECURITY. 

Ol<"FlC KRS: 

P ] AL-XC^UIRE, President: HUC-H McMAXUS, Vice President; 

IAS. T. ROUD, Treasurer; PERXARD McCLOSKEY, Atty; 

"E. |. BARNETT, Notary; W. H. PREIS, Secretary. 

DIRECTORS -las. A. Aconib, E.G. Brinkman, D. Danziger, Chas. W. Drown, 
Horace Fletcher, Thornwell Pay, \Vm. A. Gordon, Isidore Heck- 
ins;er, J.E.Jackson, J. J. Kuhner, I. M. Leonhard, P. J. Maguire, 
Francis Martin, Jno. T. Michel, Robt. G. Memory, Mat. A. Morse, 
Hugh McManus, Ino. P. Nolan, R. L. Preis, jas. T. Rodd, W. L. 
Saxon, E. M. Underhill, J. B. \'inet, H. M. \'erlander, Robt. W. 
Wilson. 

323 BARONNE ST., Next to Corner Union St. 

COMMITTEES : 

REAL ESTATE— General Jno. B. \'inet. Jas. T. Rodd, Robt. G. Memory. 
FINANCES— Walter L. Saxton, Colonel E. M. Underhill, Isidore Heckmger. 
SPECIAL COMMITTE ON SOCIETY'S REAL ESTATE— Hugh McManus. 
INSPECTOR— Robt. G. Memory. 




FRANK A. DANIELS, POSTMASTER OF NEW ORLEANS. 



72 

THE PICAYUNE 
IS THE PAPER. 

It is the representative Southern Journal. 

It is a staunch friend of Louisiana progress. 

It is an influential advocate of New Orleans' interests. 

It is respected all over the United States and is trusted 
at home. 

THE PICA YUNE 
IS THE PAPER. 

You need it, l)ecause it gives all the news. 

You need it, because it is ahvays reliable. 

You need it, because it will be welcome in ytuir home. 

You need it, because it is clean, consistent and conservative. 

THE PICAYUNE 
IS THE PAPER. 

The Best Newspaper---The Best 
Advertising Medium. 



73 

Mr. C. M. Jennings, of the Algiers Democrat, had the distinction of purchasing 
the first ticket in the new station that morning. He purchased a round-trip ticket 
to Gretna Green and return, and will keep the little piece of pasteboard in com- 
memoration of the fact. 

"II !| i! 'I il II II li!l !!!!'!'!— — 



The Old Duverje Mansion. 



The Algiers Court House, formerly so familiar to the residents of the Fifth 
District, was among the oldest bui dings in this part of the State and was an excel- 
lent idea of what a family mansion was in the early part pi the present century. 

The old Court House has been known as the Duverje house as far back as 
1812, and was a massive structure, built of brick, with solid masonry laid in adam- 
antine cement. The gigantic pillars around the house upholding the galleries and 
roof, presented a tirm front to the inroads of time. From one of the galleries of 
the mansion an excellent view of the river was obtained, and the old residents well 
wonder over the changes that have taken place in Algiers since 18 1 2. At that time 
Algiers was not dreamed of. Plantations and orange groves made up the sur- 
rounding country. 

The Court House was built with the strength of a fortress, and when Mr. 
Duverje was engaged in its construction his friends remonstrated with him, sug- 
gesting that the site selected was a bad one, as it would be gradully washed away 
by the river. Not only has this failed to occur, but the house was so substantially 
built that it bid fair to last many a long year, when it was destroyed by fire, Oct. 
20, 1895. The shingles on the roof remained intact for sixty years, and when it 
was decided to put a new roof on, the new roof was found to be but little better 
than the old one. The bricks were made in the brick yards then situated on the 
river bank in the front of the estate. Mr. Barthelemy Duverje, who was a good 
mechanic, personally superintended the erection of the building. 

After the death of Mrs. Widow Duverje, in 1839, the estate was divided among 
the heirs and Mrs. Evelina Duverje-Olivier, her daughter, received the fine old 
mansion, together with her share of the land adjoining. 

Mr. Duverje purchased the plantation site on which the building stands from 
Martial Le Bffiuf, Aug. 9, 1805. The latter's title is traced to Louis Borepo, who 
acquired Feb. 3, 1770, by grant from Don Alexander O'Reilly, Governor of the 
province of Louisiana, who then represented the crown of Castile under Charles 
HL Some eighty years ago the late J. B. Olivier led Alix. Duverje to the hand- 
some octagon, corniced room in the center of the building, where they were joined 
together in matrimony in the presence of many of the old regime. The room was 
last occupied as a City Court. 

A century has gone by since the cabildo of O'Reilly's regime had alienated 
the land. It is difficult to realize all that transpired on the spot. P>om the gal- 
leries of the house was heard the cannonding on the field of Chalmette on the 8th 
of January, 1815, In the orange groves adjoining rested many a merry group 
from Tchou-Tchouma, "the home of the sun." To the same spot came John Mc- 
Donogh on many an occasion to while away an evening hour. Years passed on. 
From the upper windows anxious faces gaze forth at the Smoky City; around the 
bend steams slowly by Farragut and the Federal fleet. 

$4.00 Monthly can buy a good new On^an at GRUNEWALD'S. 



, 74 

Its a Short Cut 

That's all it is — a <|iiick and convenient 
way to gain possession of ^vliat home 
lacks. 

You \vant to make your house cosy 
and comfortable. 

Here and there a change is needed to 
Itrigliten up the appearances of your 
apartments. 

The Bedroom needs ne^v Matting, 
Shades or Lace Curtains, a few pretty 
lings, one or Uvo Comfortable Rockers 
and a pretty Mantel Mirror would add 
materially to the atti-activeness of the 
Parlor — or perhaps you need a Stove 
foi- the Kitchen. 

AVe have an immense line of House 
Furnishing Goods in stock; 3-our choice 
of which A\'e offer you for cash or on a 
fair and ecpiitalde credit system. 

T. DUMAS CO., LTD, 

The Home Furnishers, 

922 AND 924 CANAL STREET. 



<0 




FRED. W. AKHOT, 



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PIANOS 



BUY FROM THE 
MAKER. 



LUDDEN & BATES, 

Southern flusic House, 
1027 CANAL ST. 



EASY TERMS. 
LOW PRICES. 



ORGANS 



77 

Again, in the month of April, 1865, another scene is witnessed. The Webb 
goes swiftly down stream, displaying the Confederate l^ag for the last time, and 
perished a few miles below the city. The occupant of the house then was Father 
George Lamey, a cure, who had served under Napoleon in Africa. 

At a meeting of the Police Jury of Algiers, held Jan. 5, 1869, the following reso- 
lution offered by the writer, then president of said body, was adopted: 

"Whereas, the builduigs situated on Delaronde street, at present occupied by 
the parish authorities for public business, are totally unfit for said purposes and for 
years past a disgrace to the parish. 

"Resolved, That the improvement comnnttee are hereby empowered to take 
possession of the Duverje mansion, belonging to the parish, on Villere street, to 
make all requisite repairs, and to obtain such furniture as n^ay be deemed 
requisite." 

The local paper of Algiers, March, 1869, tells the story thus: "The repairs 
and improvements made upon the Duverje mansion are now completed, and the 
authorities, having abandoned the old courthouse on Delaronde street, will soon 
take possession of the former. Henceforth, the edifice will be alive with all 'pomp 
and circumstance' attendant upon the administrators of public affairs. For the 
jury will have its sitting there, the justice will hold court there, the collector his 
taxes. 'The man with a grievance' will find his way there to indulge in the luxury 
of the law; the time-honored tribe of grumblers, whose generations, reaching far 
beyond the period when the Israelites growled at Moses, go back to the time when 
Cain grew wroth at the doings of Abel, will make that the focus of all discontent. 
Meanwhile, the abandoned old court building stands like 'some banquet hall 
deserted,' only, perhaps, a little more 'seedy.' Some gem of song inculcates the 
prudence of being 'off with the old love before being on with the new.' In defer- 
ence to this incalculation, it may be well to take leave of the forlorn old quintes- 
sence of shabbiness before paying court to its handsome successor." 

The old mansion became the seat of justice of the right bank on March 13, 
1869. Many visitors were present on the occasion'. 

The manner in which the improvements had been completed reflected credit 
both on the committee, who devised the plans, and the artisans who executed 
them. All the work was done by Algiers mechanics. 

The parish of Orleans, right bank, was annexed to the city on March 14, 1870, 
and designated as the Fifth District. The courthouse was one of the assets. It 
was, up to the great fire, in excellent condition, well worthy of a visit, and gave 
one an idea of how Creole homes were constructed during le vieux regime. 

!iii!lll!ii|i!-l!l!ll!ni!l!l 

Olden Times. McDonogh's Letter. 



The most thoroughly equipped and disciplined body of citizen solidierly that 
Louisiana ever possessed in ante bellum times was, without contest, the organiza- 
tion popularly known as the Legion. Its origin dates from the period of our terri- 
torial government At that time several companies, composed of Creoles and of 
Frenchmen, who had seen active service in Europe, were formed. They consti- 
tuted the nuecles, around which gathered in subsequent years, other similar organi- 
zations, so that, when in 1814, the British invaded our soil, a body of troops known 
as the Battalion of Orleans \'olunteers, were ready to take the field without delay. 



Headquarters for the leading Pianos are at GRUNEWALD'S. 



78 

ALGIERS BRANCH 

Chicago Dental Parlor, 

COR. PELICAN AVE. AND OLIVIER ST., 

Above Central Druef Store. 



Teeth Extracted Without Pain, only 50 cents. 
Good Fillings, 50c; Gold Fillings from 50c Up. 
Pure Silver Fillings only $ 1 ,00. 
Sets of Teeth on Rubber Base, fronn $2 to $8; 

Best, $10.00. 
Sets Repaired from $ 1 .00 Up. 

TEETH EXTRACTED AT 25 CENTS. 



RESIDENTS OE ALGIERS, 

By having;- \()Ui' Teeth attended to at tliis Branch of Onrs, it 
saves you time and expense, and you get tirst-class work 
at Reduced Prices. 

RESIDENTS OE ALGIERS, 

Call and have your Teeth examined ]>y the Dentist in charge, 

who is Al. Dentist, a perfect gentlenum and a 

native and resident of New Orleans. 






DONT FORGET THE ADDRESS OF 

The Algiers Branch, 

Cor. PELICAN AVH. AND OLIVIER ST., Above Central Drug Store. 

Office Hours From 9:30 A. M. to 4 P. M. 

VA V/. '/A -/A VA 

M^IX OFFICE: 
Corner Canal and Bourbon Streets, 

OVER CLUVERIUS' DRUG STORE. 




HAMILTON K. GAMHLE. 



80 

A. K. MILLER. FRANK A. DANIELS. VICTOR J. BOTTO. 

A. K. MILLER & CO., 

Steamship "Ship Agents, 

303 CARONDELET STREET, 
Near Gravier, NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



A.GENTS: 

Cuban Steamshi]) Co., Loiulon, Antwerp and Xew Orleans. 
British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co., LimitecL 
City Trust, Safe Deposit and Surety Co., of Philadelpliia, 
issues bonds of Surety on Contracts, Etc. 

General Passengrer ^gfents: 

American Line, Red Star Line, 

Cunard Line, Hand )uro;- American Line, 

AVliite Star Line, Nortli (lerman Lloyd Line, 

Allan -State Line, Netlierland- American Line. 



From and to New Orleans and Others Points via New York to 
All Parts of the World. 



FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD CLASS 

(Steerage) TICKETS ISSUED. 



Sight Drafts Issued on Principal European 
Cities. 

For Further Particulars, Pi'ice Lists, Sailing Dates, Etc., 

A. K. MILLER & CO., New Orleans. 



81 

Their services and poweress are now a part of our country's history. In the course 
of time this small crops increased in strength and stability with such rapidity that 
it was incorporated into a legion commanded by Generals of repute, such as Cuvel- 
lier, De Buys, Lewis and Augustin. This is a brief outline of its existence. Nearly 
every nationality was represented in this organization. The Germans had their 
Yaegers, the Spaniards, their Cazadores, the French their Voltigeurs, Cuirassiers 
and Lancers, the Americans their Washington Guards and Louisiana Grays, the 
Creoles their Grenadiers, theirSappers and Miners, each appareled in appropriate 
and gaudy uniforms. There was even a mounted corps of Mamelukes. The 
Orleans Battallion of Artillery, under the direction of the noted Dominique You 
and Major Gaily, was complete in every detail, and ever ready for active service. 

By special act of the Legislature the Legion was required to assist the Mayor 
in all cases of tumult when the police found themselves unable to preserve the 
public peace, and in April, 1830, the City voted it a yearly allowance of $2000 in 
compensation for the service. 

About that time the Louisiana Legion turned out in a body to go through the 
evolutions of a "petite guerre" or sham battle in Marigny's field, jointly with the 
uniformed companies of the First Brigade, which had been invited for the occasion. 
About 520 men of the Fourth Regiment of the United States regulars, stationed in 
the City under Major's Twiggs, appeared and formed a reserve cc^rps, in the rear 
of three columns of attack, headed by Lieut. Col. Cuvellier and directed against 
a point which was defended by 200 infantry and two field pieces, under the com- 
mand of Major Uaunoy. The onset being irresistible, a pontoon bridge was 
thrown by the latter over the ^larigny's canal. A retreat was ordered. This 
operation enabled him to take a new position on the opposite bank, and to resist 
with advantage a body of troops much stronger than his own, supported by two 
field pieces and two troops of cavalry under Capts, Vignie and Ed, Ducros. The 
mimic conflict was admirably planned and conducted, and after the firing had 
ceased, a copious breakfast champetre, offered to the general staff, the United 
States troops and the uniformed companies of the brigade, terminated a military 
feast, which was marred by no accident and attended throughout by the most 
hearty good nature and cordiality. In addition to two cavalry companies from 
Jefferson, there were two companies from St. Bernard, the Louisiana Guards, the 
Lafayette Rifleman and the Cadets, who, with the United States troops and the 
Legion, formed a total of nearly 1500 men, of all arms, when they re-entered the 
City. 

The object of the Legion was to encourage nulitary ardor and discipline. 
Every holiday, or State occasion, was taken advantage of to exhibit this spirit. 
Thus on St. Barbe's Day, the patroness of artilleries, the Orleans Battalion, were 
wont to turn out in splendid array, with a bouquet of flowers inserted in their 
"mousquetons," and proceed to the Cathedral to hear mass and take up a sub- 
scription for the orphans' asylums. This yearly practice was religiously observed 
every December. Their flags and banners were usually blessed by the Bishop in 
the progress of some ceremony. Every Sunday witnessed some marked display or 
procession, whether the soldiers were to dfill on the Place d'Armes, or on their 
way to some rural retreat. In connection with these excursions to the country, the 
following "card," from the eccentric philanthropist, John McDonogh, finds an 



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3.ppropriate place here, as characteristic of the man and of the times : 

TO THE PUBLIC. 

"My name, having appeared in the Bee of Monday, the 12th instant, (April, 
tS-ti.j nx a piece headed 'Arvis,' and signed 'Un Gurde d'Orleans,' in relation to a 
very trifling occurence, I should have let pass unheeded and without notice, but my 
friends thinking otherwise, I am induced to give, in a few words, the facts as they 
took place. 

"On Sunday morning last, the iith instant, between the hours of g and 10 
o'clock, two gentlemen in military costume came into my house, opposite the City, 
and requested me to permit their military company to go into my garden and 
pavilion, for the purpose of giving a 'breakfast.' I informed them politely that I 
«ottId not; that, having refused. a similar permission, at different times, for the last 
•two years, to various military companies, I could not permit them to go in, as I 
would thereby lay myself liable to reproach from those I refused. 

"This reply and refusal did not satisfy the gentlemen, who nisisted strenously 
«ii the use of my private property, and it was in vain that I observed to them re- 
peatedly that they had my answer. They were not to be refused. At length one 
«f them insiimated in his language that they were willing to pay for the privilege, 
when I instantly observed to them: '\'e-y well, gentlemen, it shall be so. I ask 
you nothing, not a cent, for myself. Take the pen and paper ([jointing to it, as it 
lay on my table) and draw a note, payable to the order of the Orphan Asylum 
Society, for the sum of $2^0, which is about S4 a head for each of your company, 
-and you shall go in and enjoy its pleasures; and to-morrow morning I will put a 
notice in the Gazette, informing the military companies of the City in general that 
they will be permitted to use may garden and pavilion whenever they think proper 
on the same conditions.' But the charicy of the gentlemen, it appeared, did not 
extend quite so far, as they merely observed that they could not accede to my 
proposition, and immediately withdrew. 

"The foregoing is, word for word, what took place between us: The 'Orleans 
Guard' in said piece invites particularly all such persons as desire to serve the 
Patrie, to address themselves immediately to me. For this high mark of regard 
a.nd distinction, I thank the Guard, and will only observe (though I never speak of 
myself, except when I am forced by circumstances), that whenever they (the 
Orleans Guards) shall have rendered such services to the Patrie as the writer of 
this (though a very humble individual), has had the good fortune to render it, that 
the gates of his garden and his house shall be at all times flung open night or day) 
whenever they (the Guards) approach them, to do them honor. To conclude, I 
ivill now state to the public what I did not state or say (from motives of delicacy, 
to those gentlemen in the interview above alluded to. I have been for fifteen years 
at great expense m establishing this garden, and formerly, and until the last two 
years, was in the habit of permitting the militia companies of the city to enter it, 
exercise on the pavilion and take their repast there. But I was forced about that 
time to a resolution never again to permit, so illy was I rewarded by some of those 
to whom I had granted the privilege, in having my trees, shrubbery, plants and 
.flowers cut up, destroyed and even pulled up by the roots, in several instances, and 
■carried away. 

"JOHN M'DOXOGH." 



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Was organized on the 29th day of October, 1895, by Messrs. E. L. 
Bemiss, Charles Carrol], F. A. Daniels, W. P. Nicholls, W. T. 
Hardie, A. E. Hotard and their associates. The waterworks rights 
and franchises of the Xew Orleans Waterworks Compai^y were there 
{lurchased for Algiers, thus giving the newly organized company the 
exclusive water privilege for that district during the next forty years. 
The company then decided upon the purchase of the plant of the 
Algiers Ice and Electric Company, which was for sale, as affording a 
suitable location for the waterworks plant and also giving an estab- 
lished business in the beginning. This done, the work of constructioii 
of the waterworks plant was then taken up. This was begun in 
December, 1895, and completed in April, 1896, the company opening 
its plant for the service of the public on May ist, i8g6. 

The distribution system consists of nearly 12 miles of street 
mains, varying in size from 6 inches to 14 inches, and supplying 
water to 200 fire plugs for the use of the city for fire purposes. 

In the pumping station, which is built of brick and steel, and is 
absolutely fireproof throughout, are located two duplex Worthingtoii 
steam pumping engines, each having a normal capacity of 3,000,00- 
gallons of water per dav. 

Connected with the pumps and water mains is the standpipe„, 
120 feet high and 16 feet in diameter, which will keep a steady- 
pressure of 60 i)ounds per square inch on the mains, and which will 
furnish sufficient pressure to extinguish any ordinary fire without the 
aid of steam engine. 

The company also operates an Electric Light Plant, and fur- 
nishes electric light for private comsumption in Algiers, having a 
capacity of about 2000 16 candle power incandescent lamps. 

The Ice Manufacturing part of the works is equipped wnth twc^- 
lo-ton ice machines of the absorption system, with a total capacity 
of 20 tons every 24. hours. 

The whole plant is complete, and in every respect a model one 
for efficiency and economy in operation. 

The officers of the company are as follows: 

E. L. BEMISS, President; WM. T. HARDIE, Vice President: 

LEIGH CARROLL, Secretary and Treasurer: 

FOSTER OLROYD, Superintendent. 

The Directors are: 

WM. T. HARDIE, WM. P. NICHOLLS, E. L. SIMONDS.. 

F. A. DANIELS, A. E. HOTARD, ]. B. CRAVEN, 

CHARLES CARROLL, E. L. BEMISS, 

.AND THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEWORLEAN.S, Ex-Ofiicio.- 



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Lost McAllister. 

The advent of the new year brings many happy events of the past to recollec- 
tion; but to others in our midst, it has its sorrows. From. 1870 to 1877 Captain 
•Chas. VV. Howell was major of engineers in this department m the government 
service, having'u^der his supervision, among other duties, that of removing the 
^obstructions at the Passes, in order to keep the channel clear prior to the construc- 
tion of the Jetties, at the mouth of the river. 

Two vessels, the Essayon and McAlister, powerful steam dredges, were con- 
structed under his supervision especially for that object. It was deemed advisable 
to send one of the boats to Sabine Pass to accomplish their object. 

The McAllister was brought up to Algiers and received a thorough repairing 
-at the Ocean Drv Dock, Olivier street, before proceeding on the journey. The 
vessel left here with her crew on the 31st of December, 1877. Capt. Warren was 
-Eiiaster, and LeRoy Swift, his assistant, Joseph Heap, engineer and William 
Beaver as captain's clerk, together with others from this town in different capaci- 
ties. The vessel crossed the bar and proceeded upon her voyage January i, 1878 
From that date naught has been heard of the ship or crew. All must have perished 
as no vestige of the wreck was ever recovered or a body seen. 

There was much suffering amongst the families in consequence, but active 
wrork was soon taken in their behalf. A relief committee was appointed. James H. 
Finegan, as chairman and Messrs. Manuel Abascal, Joseph Lyons. William Sarazin, 
Joseph Hughes and others on the executive committee, who soon did noble work for 
ainfortunates whose breadwinners had been so ruthlessly torn from them. E. John 
EHis and R. L. Gibson were in the House of Representatives as members from 
Louisiana and B. F. Jonas the Senator. A bill for the relief of the families was 
introduced in Congress. The committee here determined the advisability of having: 
some one upon the spot to make known the distress and the urgent necessity of 
prompt action and relief. Judge Seymour was the gentleman selected, who at 
once proceeded to Washington and gave full information, calling also upon Presi- 
<ient Hayes who became deeply interested and gave the measure his hearty 
approval. In a few days the hill became a law and one year's salary was appro- 
priated to each family whose support had perished and paid in due time by a 
-special officer sent on to New Orleans for that purpose. 

A board of inquiry was subsequently appointed to ascertain the sea worthiness 
■of the vessel prior to her departure. Considerable testimony was taken, but the 
prevailing opinion was that the ship was too top heavy and filled with cumbersome 
jnachmery, which became unmanageable, that the ship eventually went over in 
ihe trough of the seas, and all went to the bottom of the gulf. 

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A Mistorical Rome — Written in 1889. 



About one mile below Algiers, facing the river, is the hamlet of Tunisburg. 
which has a frontage oi two blocks on the [jublic road and extending in depth to 
the woods. On either side of the village may be seen the beautiful residences of 
the Trepagniers, Webert, Lawton, and Willet, delightfully situated amid orange 
and peach orchards, flowers and shrubbery. Far out the trees are festooned with 

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Sunday only 2.00 a year 

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great draperies of Spanish moss, wreathing and drooping from limb to limb; the 
forests are densely filled with rank vegetable growth of various kinds, notably the 
palmetto bush, spreading out like a fan, which forms barriers against explorers, 
only to be broken down by patient labor with the axe. Two blocks back from the 
river stands the ruins of an old fashioned mansion surrounded by a grove of cedar 
trees, a mansion wherein W. B. Howell, father-in-law of Jefferson Davis, resided 
with his family for awhile. Mr. Howell being at the time Naval Officer of the 
Customs at the Port of New Orleans. In this residence was passed many a day of 
Varina Banks Howell, widow of the chieftain, and Beckett Howell, subsequentlv of 
the "Sumpter," and the brother who perished so nobly, in command of his ship on 
the Pacific since the termination of the civil war. 

Some of our old citizens who still reside in the locale in question, remember 
the happy group who were wont to assemble upon a pleasant summer eve at 
declnie of sun upon the levee where one could hear the vesper bells from the 
Ursulme convent just opposite, and see the falling rays upon the monument at the 
field of Chalmette while at their feet 

"The Father of Waters rolling. 

On in its pomp and pride, 
Caressing the dormant galleys, 

Nested closely side by side. 
And proudly sweeping by, 

Where at the close of day. 
It circles in its course, 
Where the Crescent City lay." 

Of that group, one is now a widow, her cup of grief has surely overflown. 
Another was conveyed to his resting place in the beautiful Metairie, followed by 
thousands of sympathizers. There he slept for a while — • 

"Beneath one in granite, 

By the hand of genius made, 
Once again to rise before us. 

Waiting for his "Old Brigade;" 
Chieftain — Hero — Christain — Soldier, 

King of men, and man of God, 
Crytalized about his foot steps. 

Greatness the ground he trod." 

Mr. Uavis bought the old home from his relative on the 3rd of January, 1853, 
and It continued to be his property, which he occasionally visited from Mississippi 
until it was seized by the United States authorities and sold under the confiscation 
act, by Cuthbert Bullitt, then United States Marshal, in May, 1865. It was bought 
by Joseph Cazaubon, of Tunisburg, for a nominal sum. This sale only annulled 
the life interest of Jefferson Davis in the property, but did not touch his heirs. In 
themonth of September, 1872, Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, his wife, fordue 
consideration, renounced to Mr. Cazaubon all future claim to the i)roi)erty ior 
themselves and heirs. 

The old home stands, but its old owner now rests "Where the first rays of the 
morning's sunlight and the last gleam of the evening will linger around the silent, 
solitary sentinel, and in the still, quiet watches of the night, when the pale moon- 
beams fall upon the dreamless sleepers; there the spirit of the great Stonewall 



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JOHN M DONOGH 

— liiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii — 

Abstracts From Memoranda Addressed by John McDonogh to the Executors 

of His Estate. 



"The Plan uliicli my mind formed (influenced, I trust by the Divine Spirit) 
and has pursued, t\)r nearly Forty Years, to accumulate and get together a large 
Estate, in lands, lots of ground, in and near tlie City, Houses, etc., for the Educa- 
tion of the Poor, will in time, I doubt not, yield a revenue sufficient to educate all 
the Poor of the iwo States, cf Louisiana and Maryland, and jierhaps the poor of 
many other States in our Happy Union. To effect and secure that, I have laid its 
Foundations deep and broad, in and all around the City of New Orleans in every 
direction, so that for centuries to come (of managed in wisdom) its Revenue must 
and will goon increasing in amount with the gro\\thand entension of the City 



i)5 

(which is destined to be one of the greatest in extent and Population the world 
has ever seen) until its Rents shall amount to some millions of dollars annually. 
If therefore those who will come after me, and will have the management of 
this store (which I have strove to amass and pile up) will labor to increase and 
render it productive with the same fidelity which 1 have husbanded it, and striven 
to make it a great one, then mdeed, it will become in tmie a huge mountain of 
wealth, and will yield its increase to the Honor of God, and the benefit of Genera- 
tions yet unborn, through all Ages of the World." 

"In relation to man's happiness, constituted as he is, I have always been 
convinced that the intellectual cultivation of the Youth of our Country alone with- 
out religious cultivation cannot secure it, or give permanency to the Free Institu- 
tions of the Country, as they now exist. Education, separated from Religion, 
yields no security to morality and Freedom." 

'•I trust, I pray, that the mode I have ado]ited to effectuate it, will receive 
the Divine Blessing. I have, notwithstanding, much, very much, to complain of 
the World, rich as well as Poor. It has harassed me in a thousand different 
ways. Surs at law, of great injustice have been instituted and carried on against 
me, to deprive and take from me, [iroperty, honestly acquired, (for I have none, 
nor even would have any that was not acquired by honest industry and the sweat 
of my brow), and when obliged t3 seek justice through Courts of Law (after wait- 
ing years and years with those who were indebted to me, and refused payment) 
it has often and often been refused me. Many and many times have juries of my 
fellow men given me a stone when I asked them for bread." 

"They said of me, he is rich, old, without wife or child, let us take from 
him then what he has. Infatuated men, they knew not that was an attempt 
to take from themselves, for I was laboring, and had labored all my life, not for 
myself, but for them and their children. Their attempts, however, made me 
not to swerve, either to the right hand or to the left (although to see, and to feel 
SI sorely their injustice and ingratitude, made me often to lament the frailty, the 
perversity, and sinfulness of our fallen nature). I preserved an onward course, 
determined (as the Steward and Servant of my Master) to do them gooci, whether 
they would have it, or whether they would not have it. And I have so strove, so 
labored to the last; the result is in the hands of Him who fixes and determines all 
results; He w 11 do therewith as seemeth good unto himself. 

STATE.MENT OF APPORTIONMENT OF THE REAL ESTATE OF JOHN MCDONOGH 
BETWEEN THE CITIES OF NEW ORLEANS AND BALTIMORE. 

Location of property. New Orleans. Baltimore. 

First District of New Orleans 5230,600 00 ^230,900 00 

Second " " i35>785 00 154,380 00 

Third " " 88,46000 81,20000 

$454,845 00 $466,480 00 

Parish of Orleans i/.oqo co 6,825 00 

Town McDonogh, Parish Orleans. .'. 20,190 03 

" " Jefferson 11,20000 32,801 00 

Parish of Jefferson 34-685 co 30,915 00 

" .St . Bernard 2,920 00 

" St. James 44,000 00 75,ooo 00 

" Lafourche, interior i ,5co 00 

" Plaquemines 56,920 00 

" East Baton Rouge 49,000 00 

" .St. Tammany 200 00 

Livingston 3,400 00 7.990 GO 

" Assumption 1 1,000 00 

St. Landry 210 00 

St. Charles 200 00 

Iberville 81,500 00 

$704,440 00 $704,440 00 

Total $1,408,880 00 



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McDonogh's Last Receipt. 



CONTRIBUTED FOR THE STORY OF ALGIERS BY O. CHARLES OLIVIER, ESQ. 

"Received of Mr. Wm. W, Filkiris, Twenty-five Dollars, it being one 
■month's rent, say from the ist day of September last, until the ist day of October, 
instant, of the lot of ground occupied by you, as per lease from me, situated on the 
•corner of Magazine and Girod streets, in the suburbs St. Mary, 2d Municipality of 
New Orleans. JOHN McUONOGH, 

S25. New Orleans, October ist, 1850." 



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loosened for awhile from the prison-house of the departed," will wander forth to 
guard his chief, and the noble band who lie slumbering there at rest. 

HOW BEAUTIFUL, 
how again appropiate occurs to memory the other sentiments, voiced by Fitz Hugh 
Lee, in the presence of Mr. Davis, on the same hallowed spot some eight years 
before. 

"Now, w'hen the v.and of peace is waving wide through sea and land; now, 
when no war or battle sound is heard; now, when the idle shield and spear are high 
uphung, and the broken chariot stands, with the soUiiers' blood, gallant survivors 
of a gallant band are grouped around a monument, which will stand in , lofty 
and lasting attestation to commemorate their love, for the memory of the great 
Commander." 

Yes, yon granite minstrel's voiceless stone. 

In deathless song shall tell, 
When many a vanished year has t^uwn, 

The story how he fell — 
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's bright. 

Nor time's remorseless doom shall dim one ray. 
Of Holy light that gilds his glorious tnmb." 



Mount Olivet Church. -Episcopal. 



This handsome edifice of worship was erected in 1894-5. Much taste is dis- 
played in its construction, which is of brick and of the Gothic order. The decoration 
are worthy of the sacredness of the place. The colored glass of the windows 
throws a beautiful mellowed lig"it across the aisle, producing a chastened effect, 
suited to the solemnity of the place. Immediately above the altar is a memorial 
window, to the memory of the Rev. C. S. Hedges, a deceased pastor of the church, 
a respected man beloved by all, who died 2d April, 1892; design of which memorial 
IS executed with the bold hand of a master. Take this altogether, it is one of the 
neatest houses of devotion in the town; and a pretty specimen of ecclesiastical 
architecture. The corner-stone was laid with much ceremony. May 3d, 1894; the old 
frame building churcii having been removed to the rear of the property, where it 
is now used as a school. 

Service was first held in the new building November 25th, 1894. McDonald 
Bros., of Louisville, Ky., were the architects, J. F. Barnes the builder, and P'elix J. 
Borne superintendent. 

To the Reverend Arthur Howard Xoll, twelfth rector of Mount Olivet, must 
be awarded all credit and praise for the indefatigualile energy, i)ush and vim, dis- 
played from beginning to end in the erection of the edifice; who was well encour- 
aged throughout by the ladies of the congregation, the vestry and building com- 
mittee, despite many obstacles to be overcome during the construction; not omit- 
mg the scores of kind friends of other denominations and members, who so cheer- 
fully contributed as their means would permit for the object. 

The property was purchased from J. B. Olivier, 3rd December, 1852, and con- 
sisted then of two vacant lots of ground, fornnng the corner of ( )l.vier and Pelican 
avenue. Prior to that period services were held at intervals in the bastment of 
the old Hughes Hotel, under the auspices of the Rev. Dr. Whithall, conmiencing 
in 1846. 



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A charter was granted to "Mount Olivet Church" by Joseph Walker, Governor 
of Louisiana, January i8th, 1853, vvhich was certified to by Charles Gayarre, then 
Secretary of State, 21st January of that year, the charter issued under the general 
law regarding like corporations, enacted 30th April, 1847. The charter members 
designated were : James Duncan, Gordon C. Fory, Robert Roberts, Jacob Nelson, 
Thomas Hughes, Augustine Fory and Alexander Reid. In addition, James Ccwke 
and A. G. \'andenberg were included as vestrymen. 

The wooden church building, wherein religious services were conducted from 
1853 to 1895, was twice badly damaged by fire, both occasioned by defective flues; 
the first time, during 1868, and agam, January. 8th, 1893. Active measures were at 
once taken and same rebuilt, which now occupies the rear portion of the lots facing 
on Pelican avenue, used first as a parish Episcopal school. 

The charter of the church was k)st with other papers during one of these 
fiery ordeals. This was a matter of considerable ve.xation; efforts were made to 
obtain a certified copy from the State Department at Baton Rouge, the result was 
futile, most of the State records were destroyed by fire while the Capitol Building 
was burning while occupied by Federal soldiers, in 1862. 

Eventually the document was recovered in a most unexpected manner. The 
debris of one of the fires was carted away and thrown on the river bank in Alo-iers. 
Some one found it there on the shore of the great river, and placed same in posses- 
sion of of Capt. Henry Willett, who was the medium of promptly restoring it to the 
vestry and wardens of the church. 

Some objections having arisen as to the legality of the charter, the matter 
was submitted to the Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Church, in session at 
Christ Church Cathedral, under the presidency of Bishop Sessums, April 5th, 
Igg4, and the following was the action thereon. 

"At the request of the Bishop and of Rev. Arthur Howard Noll, the charter of 
the Mount Olivet Church was examined, with the view of determing its legalitv, 
objection being made: (i) That the charter had not been recorded in the parish 
where the church was located. (2) That the charter omitted to state the number 
of years or period it should have existed. 

"These and some other minor objections made, were found to be without force, 
and the charter was held to be in every respect legal and valid. 

"The objections stated were founded u[)(in the retjuirements ol law, as now ex- 
isting, but the charter in question was ot^tamed under the provisions of a former 
law passed by the Legislature ot the State of Louisiana April 30, 1847. AH the re- 
quirements of that Act were complied witli, and the registry of the act of incorpora- 
tion was made in the office of the .Secretary of State at the Capital, and no period 
for its existence was stated because, under that Act, no limitation was placed upon 
the existence of the charter so granted. Accordingly, under the terms of the Act 
of 1847, the duration of the charter in (piestinn, which had continuance withoui 
limit and became perpetual, and inasmuch as contract and property rights have 
grown up under it, the charter grant and rights thus ac(]uired became irrepealable." 

For future i)reservation, it was deemeil l)est to have the precious long lost paper 
made one of record in the Mortgage Office of the Parish of Orleans. To do this, 
it became requisite to take an acknowledgment in due form of the only signature 
and seal thereon. For that purpose, Ju Ige Charles Gayarre, the eminent historian 
was visited April 19th, 1894, and to him was summitted for authentication the 
copy of the act of incorporation he had affixed his official signature thereto the 



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2) St of January, 1853; over forty-one long years had elapsed, since he had first held 
the paper in his hand. The recollection of that interview with the old historian, 
will be one long to be remembered with feeling of love and affection. His intelli- 
gent and expressive blue eye, lit up with intellectual light, a face remarkable for its 
intellectuality. 

The act of acknowledgment and the charter was subsequently recorded on the 
14th of May, 1894. This was likely the last legal paper exammed by the Judge. 
He died in the ninety-first year of his age, Monday, February nth, 1895. "Asa 
youth, he consecrated his first ambitions to Lc«isiaua; through manhood he 
devoted his pen to her, old, suffering, berift by misfortune of his ancestral heri- 
tage, and the fruit of his primes, vigor and industry, he yet stood ever her courage- 
ous knight, to defend her. 'He held her archives, not only in his memory, but in 
his heart, and while he lived, none dared make public aught about her history, 
except with his vigilant form in the line of vision." 

It can be truthfully asserted, that no other church in the diocese, possessed of 
a charter, has experienced such varied fate, as that, of the one in question. It 
recalls to memory the vicissitudes and perils of the one granted in the early days 
of the history of our country. The one issued by a King of England to Connecti- 
cut, in colonial times, which during 1687, was hid for safe keeping at Hartford, in 
the hollow of a venerable oak, which afterwards remained famous as the old 
Charter Oak for more than a century. 

Rev. Mr. Uunn, officiated at one time, he was succeeded by the Rev. Charles 
W. Hilton, but no service was permitted there during Butler's regime, so the 
building was closed quite a while, unless prayers were voiced by the rector, for the 
President of the United States, Mr. Hilton's successors were Revs. William 
Leacock, Alex. Gordon Bakeweli, Edward Fontaine, the latter, the author of 
"How the World was Peoijleil," published in 1872, and "Science of Hydraulic 
Engineering," published by the national government at their expense in 1879. A 
wonderful and talented man he was in every resjiec'. His son, Lamar, was the 
author of that beautiful war poem. "All quiet along the Potomac to-night." 
Albert Wilson Starbuck was clerk of the vestry for quite a while, during 1870-73 
he revised all the records of the parish from their chaotic state to one of perfec- 
tion and models for his successor in office. Mr. Starbuck died on the steamship 
New Orleans, on Sunday, June 29th, 1873, ^"^ was buried at sea. He was a giant 
in statute, mind and intellect of equal magnitude a true friend. In truth may it be 
be said he possessed "A combination and a form indeed, where every god did 
seem to set his seal, to give the world assurance of a man." Revs. J. F. Girault, 
Wm. C. McCracken and C. S. Hedges, in turn were succeded by Arthur Howard 
Noll, a most energetic churchman, to whose persevering work the fine edifice will 
ever prove a monument. The present rector is a sterling young minister, Rev. 
Jesse S. Moore, lately ordained, who is accomplishing much good. Charles H. 
Brownlee is the treasurer of the vestry. 

Church of the ftoly Name of Mary. 



.Successor to St. Bartholomew's Church, is situated on Verret between Alix 
and Evelina streets, and evidences the activity and power of the Catholic Church in 
Algiers, and the solidity and splendor ot its institutions and of its vast importance as 

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an element in the complex life of the town; with its handsome grounds, and hall 
occupies nearly all of the block in that section. The Convent and Sisters School 
is in the adjoining block. 

The material of the vast structure is of brick and cement arches. The style 
is lofty and miposing. Exteriorly the building is impressive and solemn, the 
tower with clock and spire, massive lofty and majestic, indeed. 

In grave and quiet grandeur, the inside of the church with its noble colums is 
in perfect accord with its outward appearance; the altars and their appointments 
being rich and elegant. The interior is adorned with French stained glass, 
masterly altars, and many other treasures of art, all characterized by simplicity, 
dignity, massiveness and vast size, with electric lights, and a large seating capacity. 

The St. Mary's Catholic Club have an elegant hall upon the adjoining corner, 
with billiards, and stage appurtenance, which is an attractive rendevous for the 
many members of the club who nightly assemble there. The place is one of many 
a social gathering, for concerts and kindred entertainments of a pleasmg nature. 

The grounds adjoining the church are handsomely laid out in serpentine 
walks with parterres of flowers and shrubbery blooming and blossoming at every 
turn with artistic design; all the handiwork of the reverend fathers who delight in 
the labor. Father Gibbons being the Gen-IE who supervises all, and there passing 
many a pleasant hour. The property stands registered as belonging to the 
"Father of the Society of Mary." 



The Methodist Episcopal Ghurch, 



Of which Rev. Wynn is pastor, has been located for many years upon the 
corner of Lavergne and Delaronde streets. The congregation is quite a large one, 
and much good results from the earnest workings of its members. The old build- 
ing was erected in ante bellum times, but active steps are now in progress for 
the demolition of the building and the speedy erection of an edifice more suit- 
able for the convenience (if the members, and the progress existing in the immedi- 
ate and surrounding sections. 

The German Evangical Lutheran Trinity Congregation Church is situated 
on Olivier, corner of Evelina streets. The building is a frame one, with steeple 
small, but extremely neat and pretty in design. The corporation is chartered, 
under date of 19th October, 1875. Many of our German citizens worship there, 
and take a deep and active interest in its welfare and progress. 



Golored Churches. 



There are many throughout the District. Several of the buildings of worship 
are really handsome and commodious, and reflect much credit for the taste and 
ornamental design exhibited in their construction by their various congregations. 
Beautiful Zioii, Mount Pilgrim and St. Mark, are all duly chartered corporations. 

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Tlie /Viexander ]V\eiT)oriaI library. 



f ¥^HE Alexander Memorial Library, founded by the Faithful Circle of Kings' 

I Daughters in memory of the young hero, W'm. Alexander, who sacrificed his 

_£ life while endeavoring to save hundreds from the destruction of an incoming 

train. Mr. Alexander was the favorite son of Mrs. E. M. Hudson, President 

of the Circle. 

After seven years of fortunate existence as an organization, we come together 
again to celebrate the begmning of a new year of work, and to learn from a review 
of past endeavors how we shall exert the greatest directing power for good in the 
future. It is pleasant to note that the influence of the Alexander Library has gone 
far beyond its success has encouraged the establishment of free reading-rooms in 
in other localities. There is to '"e said of all work that is educational, whether it 
be exerted by mean of public schools or of public libraries, that it is almost 
mipossible to estimate its potency to mold jiublic sentiment or character. 
Broader views and nobler purposes, higher ideas of life, are imperceptibly installed 
through these channels. It goes without saying that every community must 
welcome the establishment of these great factors towards human progress in its 
midst. 

The growth in popularity of the Alexander Library, in the town of Algiers, 
otherwise known as the Fifth Distri t of Xew Orleans, has been gradual, but 
steady, until it has' now become a part of the daily life of the people. The past 
has shown a constant increa-e in the number of readers, which has necessitated a 
demand for more room. The Crescent Lodge of Knights of Pythias, with their 
usual kindness, met this demand by granting a larger allowance of space to the 
library. 

The beginning of the year iSg'i finds the library in a good condition, and with 
all its most urgent needs satisfied. The room has been enlarged, there is 
more space for the books, more stable accommondation for the periodicals, better 
light and greater seating capacity for the readers. Through the generosity of 
sympathizing friends, new books and new per odicals have constantly been added 
to the fresh reading matter. The liberality of the press has been great and con- 
stant. All the large daily newspapers of New Orleans and the Democrat and 
Herald of Algiers are donated, and their coluiwns are open to any communications 
tending to attract or stimulate interest in the work. The pen has proved very 
mighty in this good cause. 

The Faithful Circle is glad of an op]),)rturiity to thank our home newspapers 
publicly for their past kindnesses. 

Several of the gentlemen of Algiers have been most helpful and encouraging 
in this enterprise. The protection given the library by the Crescent Lodge, Knights 
of Pythias, has been of immense value, and the donation of electric lights for the 
room, a great saving of expense. 



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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mathewes have been extremely active in their aid to the 
library, and were most liberal in their donations. The citizens of Algiers have 
thus shown their appreciation of the fact that anythmg which tends to the advance- 
ment of learning, or a familiarity with things beautiful, isbroadening and uplifting; 
that it means progress and better citizenship for the community. 

A free library, through its books and the somlimes exquisite engravings of its 
periodicals, has an opportunity to gain the popular taste and give it an impulse in 
the right direction. And this good the Alexander Library seems to be gradually 
accomplishing. There is no doubt that it is doing a great deal in the way of form- 
ing an intelligent reading pubhc, as evidenced by the class of books and periodi- 
cals which are asked for by the readers. Magazines relating to certam branches 
of science and to the mechanic arts are most in demand. 

The possibilities of this library are very great, rejjresenting, as it does, the only 
public source of intel ectual recreation or growth in a town of about 16,000 inhabi- 
tants, which is separated by a broad river from the libraries, theatres and lecture 
halls of New Orleans. The members of the F'aithful Circle have felt an earnest 
wish to meet the wants, by means of night classes, of those habitues of the library 
who desire special training in drawing, in applied sciences and the mechanical 
trades, but a night school would require more room than is at present at their dis- 
posal. With donations of money from sympathizers, with a large membership in 
the circle, all this and more can be accomplished. The sum of $50, generously 
given by Miss Annie Howard, as a necleus towards a building fund, now lies in 
bank awaiting donations from other hands. 

The success of the Alexander Library is mainly due to two causes; hrst the 
great need of such an institution in the community m which it is placed, and next 
the intelligent, earnest efforts made by the band of women who are deservedly 
called "The Faithful Circle." The work of this circle seems to be animated by a 
broad sprit of love for humanity, by a deep sense of the meaning of its mission, 
which makes it untiring in its endeavor to solve some of the industrial and educa- 
tional problems of the nineteenth century. 




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FELIX BORNE, POLICE COMMISSIONER. 



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BY MRS. JOSEPHINE HASA.Vl. 

Slow over the emhei's my \\eary feet 

Go wandei'iiio- dreaniily here and tliei-e. 
I designate neither corner nor street, 

Homes, one held of ein<lers, all l>are. 
Oh, desolation! I htly exclaim, 

Viewino- the Avreck, oVr the mei-ciless flame. 

Once where I ti'ead, hlonmed meadows so o-reen. 
In my <4'irlhood days, \vhat memories abound, 

For many and sad the clianges Fve seen. 

Above this blackened and lire-scathed ground, 

There fourdeaved clovers plucked, playmates and I, 
Wlien youths Heeling years sped mei-rily by. 

Don't think I am crazed, that I took no repose, 
But stood with the cro^\■d through that fiery night, 

And wept not! The Plnenixfrom ashes arose. 
Look about! There builds in the morning light, 

Throuo-h the smoke of our ruins yon rising cloud rolls, 
Those "mansions'' our Father })repares for our soul. 

These are "joys of this earth." There no parting or grief, 
Nor waves overwlielm; no whirlwinds destroy; 

No fire can scathe. Life tortui-e is l)rief , 
To the length that eternity gives us of joy. 

Oh "sackclotli and ashes" })e mine upon earth, 
Till Ph(enix like rises that heavenlv birth. 



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DESTITUTION, devastation and desolation followed in the wake of the 
terrible fire which swept over the central portion of Algiers October 20th, 
1895. Nine and a half scfuares of ground were in ashes, and about twenty- 
acres of a forest of chimneys standing, in all their nakedness, gaunt 
reminders of what had been the center of a thriving and populous community. It 
was calculated that there were about 200 houses burned, and, with the furniture and 
with the personal effects which were consumed, the total loss footed up the enor- 
mous sum of $600,000. 

The fire started as above stated, at 12:45 ^i- '"•> '" the two-story frame tene- 
ment known as the "Old Rookery." It had us origin in the second house from the 
corner of Bermuda street, on Morgon street, occupied by Paul Bouffia, an Italian 
who kept a small fruit stand there. The building was occupied by over a dozen 
families, and some of these had narrow escapes, though all got out safely. As 
soon as it was discovered, an alarm was turned in, but a high northeast wind was 
blowing, and fanned the flames into a seething mass, which soon enveloped the en- 
tire building. 

When the alarm was sent in, the three steam engines and truck of Algiers 
promptly responded. One engine took up a position on the landing of the Canal 
Street Ferry, the second at a water well on the corner of Morgan and Seguin 
streets, while the third was located at the well at the corner Bermuda and Morgan 
streets. The truck was in front of the building m which the fire originated. Chief 
Engineer Daly was on hand and instructed the men. P'or a short time it looked 
very much like the fire would be confined to this building, but as the wells were 
emptied of water in the short space of half an hour, the one stream from the engine 
on the ferry landing could not hold it in check. 

The flames then communicated to the adjoining buildings in all directions, and 
not until the row of houses on both sides of Bermuda street and on one side of 
Morgan street were in flames did Chief Daly call for assistance from the City 
proper. It required almost an hour before the City engines could reach the town, 
by which time the flames had leaped across the street and were consuming the en- 
tire scjuare in which the Court House and the Eight Precinct Station were located. 
When the engines arrived under command of Chief O'Connor, they were all 
stationed along the levee and drew water from the river. 

It is a fact which cannot be contradicted, that if the wind had not changed, 
'the flames would never have been gotten under control until the whole town had 
been wiped out. 

When the house occupied by Paul Bouffia was burning fiercely, in the r°ar, a 
report flashed through the crowd tliat an oUl woman, who occupied the second 
floor, was up-stairs and probably overcome with the smoke. James Reynolds, 
Clerk of the Eight Precinct Police Station, volunteered to rescue her, and he did 
so by rushing up to the second floor and soon after came out of the burning build- 
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ing with o'd Mrs. McGinnis in his arms. She had been overcome by the smoke 
and would have perished in the flames had she not be=n rescused promptly. 

The flames ate their way up Bermuda street and consumed a number of 
cottages there, and then leaped across the street, attacking the little cottage occu- 
pied by Clerk James Reynolds. By this time the community had become 
aroused to the danger which threated them, and all living in that neighbor- 
hood began taking their furniture and valuables out of their houses, and 
the bulk of this was placed in the yard and corridors of the Court House. This 
was considered safe, as it was not believed that the flames would succeed in reach- 
ing the historic pile. By the brilliant light which the conflagration sent up, illumi- 
nating the entire town, the terror-stricken people worked with a will, finding will- 
ing helpers, in their more fortunate neighbors, they soon succeeded in storing old 
stuff in the corriders of the Court House. 

But the fury of the flames was far from appeased. Onward and onward they 
crept, until the entire center of the square, in the rear of the Court House was a 
veritable inferno. One by one the houses caught, and almost in less time than it 
takes to tell, handsome little dwellings -werj reduced to heaps of smoldering ruins. 
Nearer and nearer came the fire to the Court House. Everybody then began to 
realized the danger they were in if this was allowed to catch. The little two-story 
tenement in the rear yard of the station, which was formery the plantation quarters 
of the darkies who worked for Duverje, caught but a score of hands were soon at 
work trying to quench the little tongues of flame which sprang up here and there 
on the shingle roof. A stream of hose was directed on it. and a whole cistern of 
water was poured on it by the bucketful, but all effort was in vain. In ten minutes 
it was a heap of burning debri?, and the workers directed their attention to the 
Court House, which had already caught. A little double cottage next to it was 
sending up great tongues of flame, which had ignited the roof and wood work on 
the gallery, and the slate roof of the Court House acted as a slight check. The 
flames ate their way beneath the slate, on the rafters and joists, and it was soon a 
seething mass. So confident was everyone that this building could be saved, that 
they hesitated to remove their furniture and their goods which they had stored 
therein, until the last moment, and then it was too late. The Court records were 
also left to the last minute and the bulk of these also went up in smoke. All the 
old records of the City Court, the records of births, marriages and deaths before 
the Board of Health tojk charge of that work, and all but two books of the 
Recorder's Court were burned. The employes of the Police Station, however, 
were more fortunate and managed to save every scrap of paper belonging to their 
department. When the old roof fell in it sent up a shower of sparks and chunks 
of burning wood, which, while it formed a pretty sight, was disastrous to the houses 
which were to the windward. Bat the massive brick walls served one good pur- 
pose, and that was to save the buildings on the river side. 

In the meantime the City engines had arrived, and, with Chief O'Connor in 
control, concerted efforts were put into force to check the flames, but they were as 
naught against the terrible gale which was blowing. Chief of Police Gaster also 
arrived, with Mayor Fitzpatrick, an<l, with an additional force of police and fire- 
men, they set to work assisting the unfortunates who were domiciled in the path of 
the raging element. The department was sadly handicapped by a lack of hose 
and water, as it had to be pumped all the way from the river in relays. 



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The flames even ate their way in the face of the wind and burned out almost 
the entire square in which the fire originated. It leaped over to the next square, 
bounded by Lavergne, Delaronde, Bermuda and Pelican, and, in the course of half 
an hour, had wiped off all but three buildings, and the rear of these were scorched. 
When it was seen that the flames were likely to reach out in this direction, down 
the river, steam was started in the saw mill of Hotard & Lawton, and, with a lead 
of 1300 feet of hose, a stream was kept constantly playing on the houses fronting 
on Lavergne street by the fire brigade of the mill. There is no doubt in the world 
that they prevented the fire from crossing that street, and thus saved a vast 
amount of property from destruction. There was not a single fire engine in this 
vicinity, which seemed to be abandoned to its fate, and while the fire was pre- 
vented from crossing Lavergne street, it forged ahead, driven by furious wnids 
towards Bermuda and Seguin streets, and, unresisted, ate its way in a course 
almost parallel with the river, until it had practically burned itself out. 

The entire area covered by the fire looked like a veritable mferno, continually 
spreading out, leaping from one street to another almost before the people in that 
square knew that it was there. Sparks lighting on the roofs of houses, driven 
thither by the wind, would ignite, and soon half a dozen houses would begin to burn 
in a square at one time. Some efforts were made to guard against these sparks by 
people, who stationed themselves, with buckets of water on shingled-roofed 
dwellings, waiting for the little tongues of flame to shoot up, when they 
would be quenched, but while the volunteer was engaged in putting this flame out 
another would gain such headway on him that he would have to scamper down 
with all haste to save himself from the fire, which spread with great rapidity. 
The firemen would no sooner get a line of hose fixed on a street and start to fight 
the fire from the windward, when the flames would drive them away, and in several 
instances large sections of hose were burned and melted so as to be rendered use- 
less. People moving their furniture fr jm houses in danger would, with great diffi- 
culty, and the aid of volunteers, succeeded in getting it a block away, and in 
apparent safety, when they would find that all their labor was in vain, as the 
flames would swoop down on that square, and the whole thing would become a 
seething furnace in no time. Many persons lost their furniture, which they had 
saved from burning houses, in this manner. 

When the flames had eaten their way to the river front above the Grand Isle 
Depot the sight presented was one long to be remembered, both by the poor un- 
fortunates who had been driven out of their homes by the relentless element and 
by the spectors who gazed in awe on the terrible havoc being wrought. Two leads 
of hose were being operated by the Southern Pacific Tug El Chico and the Cor 
sair, and they did effective work in checking the flames. Mayor Fitzpatrick, who 
is an old volunteer fireman, made good use of his experience as a foreman of No. 
13, and with an overcoat drawn up over his ears to protect him from the showers of 
sparks which were falling around like a hail of fire, he directing operations in that 
vicinity with good results. By the most persistent work and with great difficulty 
the fire was checked at Alix street, though it was necessary to continue playing 
the hose on the houses on the opposite side of the street to prevent the buildings 
from catching fire from the heat. 

About 5 o'clock, when the fireman were directing their energies in this locality, 
which was the first real effort made with any degree of success at checking the 
fire's headway, sparks fell on the roof of a coal office belonging to W. G. Coyle & 



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'Co^ about a thousand yards up the river, and soon that building was a mass of 
:Sajncs. Around here were a number of coal barges and other property, and it 
Looked as if a serious conflagration would break out here, but the Tug Wilmot was 
.put into service and prevented the fire from spreading. 

As daylight dawned the brilliancy of the spectacle became more subdued, and 
■with the advance of the successful efforts of the fire fighters the flames died 
-out gradually until by noon only here and there in the vast forest of gaunt and 
.grim chimneys little tongues of fire would shoot up from the heaps of smoking 
debris, seemingly defiant to the last. All day a huge gray cloud floated many 
.miies in the air above the town, slowly moving away and being absorbed mto the 
atmosphere, until when night fell again over the scence of desolation it had van- 
nished from view. 

Mr. C. Uncas Lewis made a diagram of the burned section. Mr. Lewis made 
-an estimate of the number of houses which had been burned, and it foots up a 
total of 193. He estimates the loss on buildings at §300,000, and on personal prop- 
•erty and furniture at §100,000, making a total of $400,000. 

To provide for the unfortunate people rendered homeless by the fire was a 
aerious question which rose up before the people of Algiers that Sunday morning. 
A thousand or more people had to be provided with shelter of some kind, and 
where temporary homes could be found for them was a question indeed hard to 
solve. SoJiie families were housed in McDonogh School Xo. 4, others in the 
Masonic, Pythian and Eureka Halls. Every house which was vacant, every room 
which was for rent was quickly taken, and every person was provided with tempo- 
rary quarters. The old Planters' Oil Works, at the corner of Belleville and Pater- 
son, was also utilized as shelter for the homeless. 

While the destruction of property was enormous, and to be deplored, it is 
gratifying that not one life was lost nor any one injured. Not so much as a horse 
vvas burned. 

Hundreds upon hundreds of people crossed to Algiers on the Canal and 
St- Ann street ferries. The intelligence of the terrible conflagration in Algiers was 
.not made known fully to the morning paper readers, for the fire continued to burn 
Jong after the papers were on the streets. Later in the day the full news was given 
'to the residents of the city, and the ferries made trips as fast as they could cross. 
^ie up and get another human cargo. 

The terrors, the agonies, the suspense that attended the conflagration were not 
made as manifest to the visitors as they were to the persons on the scene. The 
pictures presented to the spectators during the mad sweep of flames are indescrib- 
able. Aged women could be described rushing along from one place to another, 
through smoke-filled streets, carrying something from a doomed building. They 
stumbled and fell. Little children with arms full of something or other weighted 
down, dove around corners to get out of the smoke and flame, for they really in 
niany. instances ran between burning buildings. They deposited their burdens and 
going back, secured another armful. Little girls, mothers, husbands, sons, in and 
out of different streets, did the same thing, and many of these having made a store- 
liouse of the banquette, saw big live coals of fire drop into the bedding stored there 
and the next thing they were consumed Women sat on their galleries and waited' 
for the fire to get upon them before they would reliiujuish the place they called 
home and loved with all of a woman's devotion. Others, insured, stood before the 
closed doors and waited until the all-consuming flames had taken hold. There 

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were some men who worked as they never had before in efforts to help peer wcme 
remove their household efifects and there were other men who stood about and 
looked on women and young girls freighted down with burdens and offered no as- 
sistance. Some of the men folks at one end of the town were working with a will 
to help save household effects of friends and in the morning they found they were 
burned out themselves. Many were under the impression that the fire was sweep- 
ing from the corner of Bermuda and Morgan streets in a northwesterly direction to 
the river front, while it was eating to the right left and everywhere. 

Even while the flames were licking the sides of the court building and playing 
■with the telephone wires, the news was being sent along and was sent until the ex- 
change said the wires were grounded, and then the fire had gotten through the wire 
and the court was in flames. 

Judge Sam Levy proved himself a good man in an emergency. Seeing that 
the fire was about to assume big proportions he went to Gooldsboro on a mule and 
summoned the engine from there. 

Committee Clerk of the City Council Martin Behrman, who resides in Algiers, 
a. little beyond the range of the fire, saw the necessity of immediate relief for the 
people and started out on a canvas of his own for subscriptions. 

The man with the camera was one of the early morning visitors on the scene 
He got in the burned district and got views from every quarter. He went into the 
different squares and really took the situation from all points. 

Late in the evening it was difficult to get around the burned quarter on the 
sidewalks. The crowd from the city was big enough to make something of a con- 
tinuous moving procession. Many of this crowd interrogated the unfortunates and 
learned for themselves the true nature of the distress they were in. And it may 
be said that many a dollar was slipped into the hand of a fire-sufferer. It goes to 
show that a person brought face to face with a calamity is touched to the extent of 
ajntributing as becomes the man who is human. 

Mayor Fitzpatrick got on the scene when the fire was at its worst. He found a 
position on the river front and took an active hand in the direction of the men, 
making a good assistant to Chief O'Connor. He got the men to the front of the 
fire, where they should have been earlier in the action, and though Alix street was 
beginning to take, the firemen got behind shutters torn from buildings and fought 
■the flames to a finish right there. Chief O'Connor and the mayor remained unti^ 
■all danger was past. 

Judge Seymour, who presides at the Third City Court, was in Atlanta, Ga. Al' 
of the old marriage licenses and records of the court were lost in the fire. 

When the fire was raging in its fiercest in the morning, the wind was blowing 
a cyclone. The dust on the street was parched and this jWas blown in a person's 
-face, and it cut and burned dreadfully. The eyes were especially effected by the 
■dust. This wind floated quarter shingles through the air. 

One of these things which even a man with little of the finer feelings can pass 
'Bnnoticed was the spectacle presented at the inner edge of the banquette near the 
<:orner of Seguin and Alix streets. When the flames had died away in this section 
and the sidewalk was accessible, the linemen putting up the new electric wires 
.found the bodies of two dogs that had been burned to a crisp. They were cuddled 
"together, and, judging from the position in which they were found, had crawled 
under the front stoop and shoved their noses to an opening that must have been in 
<he bottom of the step to breathe. And it was here they were cremated, as close 



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'together as they could get. The position in which they were found told the story 
as well as if the death had been witnessed. The hnemen out of the very feeling 
that comes to men at such a time, covered the poor brutes where they were. The 
woman who lived on the premises told the men that the dogs had awakened her, 
and she did all in her power to get them out of the place, but they were fright- 
ened and ran under the stoop and could not be dragged out. 

The fire was a good thing for the Algiers, McDonoghville and Gretna car line. 
The residents of Gretna and McDonogh were as an.xious to see the sight as the Or- 
leanians, and they took the only street car Ime on this side of the river. During 
the progress of the fire the Company was not feeling very good, for the blaze was 
very close to the stables at one time, and it became necessary to remove the rolling 
and propelling stock. 

The Grand Isle Roundhouse, about loo yards from the upper end of the fire, 
and the Office and Freight Shed at the lower end of it, were in eminent danger at 
onetime, but for the good work of the [lump that supplied the reservoir, this beino- 
situated between bo;;h buildings, they would have been destroyed. The reservoir 
lias pipe leads to the Roundhouse and Shed. Hose was attached at each end, and 
:.|he roofs of both buildings were kept soaked all the time. 

Among the Towboats were of great service at the fire were Corsair, Maud 
Wilmot, El Mozo and Elmer Woods. They took up different positions in the river 
-and gave out leads of hose that were put to good use by the firemen. 

Officer Chubbuck, from the City side of the river, detailed to duty at the cor- 
ner of Bermuda and Alantic avenue, said that he saved a little child from certain 
■cremation. The little one was making her way through an alley on Bermuda near 
Alix street, and pieces of burning timber were falling about her on all sides. Had 
she progressed further in the alley, there would be no going beyond except into the 
iiames, so he ran in, grabbed her while the alley was filling with burning brands 
and rushing out, soaked her in the gutter, thinking she was burning. She got 
nothing but a soaking. 

Charles Featherling, Engineer of the Algiers Saw Mill, remained at the pump 
that was delivering water on the fire while his own home was being destroyed, ana 
was aware of it all the time. He had no other man to take his place, so he held 
the fort. 

After the fire had burned back to Delaronde street and the houses on the river 
side were in flames, Mr. Samuel Levy called out the \'olunteer Eire Companv, 
which used the old hand pump of Morgan Company No. 4. The volunteers for 
some time prevented the flames from crossing the street. The pump was subse- 
isjuently abandoned, however. Four gentlemen happened to come along at this 
time, antl, seeing the apparatus lying idle, and the houses on the Railroad side of 
the street in danger, they took charge of the fire fighter and fought the flames until 
the heat became too intense to remain any longer. Three of them would do the 
pumping while the fourth held the nozzle and kept the front of the houses and roofs 
damp, which prevented them from catching fire. 

In the morning two young ladies of Algiers, Misses fTora Hurlbet and M. 
Skelly, gained for themselves the admiration of many by their prompt realization 
of the situation and their prompt response. They saw that the firemen and citi- 
zens who for the time being had been made firemen in their labors fighting the 
flames were being tired and exhausted, and hastily arranging a convenient table 
made for them an abundance of coffee, which with short lunches were supplied to 

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the men at work. This was very much appreciated by the firemen, for theirs was 
^n arduous and tiresome, as well as an exhausting task. 

Along the river front lived the poorer people, those who could afford only 
rented houses, and possessing barely a set of furniture, Italians, negroes and hum- 
ble workers of all classes. These poor people, as soon as they saw that their 
homes were destined to be swallowed up in the relentless fires, rapidly carried their 
cfifects over the embankment, down to the water's edge, and there deposited chem 
■on the batture. 

All along the batture for a distance of nearly a mile from the Wood's 
docks, which are located eight or ten blocks above the Grand Isle Depot, to the 
Canal Street Ferry Landmg, the northern border of the fire limit, the batture was 
filled with men, woman and children. 

Women half-clad were standing with shawls on their heads watching the 
smoke curling above the chimney-tops, and dreaming of the morrow. Children, 
aroused from peaceful slumber in the dead hours of the night, stood crying and 
sobbing around the feet of distressed and povety-stricken parents. Here and there 
an old negro woman, her face a degree blacker with dust and ashes, and her clothes 
barely fastened to her body, stood guard by a small tub of clothes and a few pieces 
«f old chairs. Men stood about on the batture with their wives, moaning the loss 
of every stick of furniture, and all their clothmg, save what could be hastily seized 
as they were hurried out of a home already fast becoming the food of the hungry 
Sames. 

Women with babies upon their breasts sat flat upon the ground and gave their 
young nourishment. Little bare-headed and bare-footed boys, fatigued and worn 
out with the e.xcitement of the night, lay sleeping on the grass, and on every side 
were homeless and suffering people. Ths picture was one long scene of distress, 
•extending for a mile down the river front. 

Now and then, as the levee front was traversed, men were found, who, with 
more pluck, were mending furniture hastily snatched from the flames and getting 
things ready for home-making again. Many of the men, as soon as they had saved 
"their goods, hastily sought out new homes further back in the city, and were carry- 
ing them thither. 



The Relief Gommittee. 



The measures for the relief of the destitute were put under way early during 
the day, and by 4 o'clock m the afternoon, a thoroughly organized and systematic 
•effort was being made for the assistance of the unfortunates who lost their all 
in the fire. There was fully 100 families who lost everything they possessed, and 
■many others who, while they saved a little furniture, were unable to find a refuge 
or obtain food. 

At an early hour in the morning, a number of the leading citizens of the burg 
met at the residence of Mr. Martin Behrman, to devise some means of relief. Mr. 
P. S. Lawton acted as Chairman, and Mr. Behrman occupied the desk. After dis- 
cussing the situation, it was decided that a Mass Meeting be held at 3 o'clock in 
the afternoon at the Eureka Hall, and the following call was issued and widely 
circulated: 

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"A great calamity has overtaken a portion of our people. A disastrous conflagra- 
tion, covering an erea of ten squares, has swept out of existence nearly 200 houses, 
whose occupants, driven in terror and confusion, were powerless, in a great many 
cases, to save aught but their lives. Numbers of these people have neither food 
nor shelter, nor the means to procure either. These people are our friends — they 
are in need — and it is proposed to help them. We, therefore, call upon our more 
fortunate brethren to meet us at Eureka Hall at 3 o'clock this day (Sunday), and 
contribute to the full measure of their means. Come one and all, and come pre- 
pared to act promptly, as this is one of the cases where givnig quickly is giving 
doubly. 

MANUEL ABASCAL. O. I. McLELLAN, 

A. E. HOTARD, P. S. LAVVTON. 

F. R. HURLBURT, MARTIN BEHRMAN, 

GEO. W. FOSTER, PETER CLEMENTS, 

FRANK A. DANIELS, MARK A. MORSE, 

T. F. MAHER, F. C. HENNING, 

ARTHUR DUVTC, T. G. BRIGHAM." 

In the meantime lists were gotten up, and quite a large sum collected by the 
gentlemen who had assembled at the first meeting. 

The mass meeting assembled at Eureka Hall shortly after 3 o'clock, and there 
were fully 200 citizens of the town present. The report had been circulated 
throughout the town that some action would be taken in regard to a contemplated 
expulsion of the Italian element of the population, and, while there were a mutter- 
ings among some people who took their losses very hard, nothing of the sort devel- 
oped at the meeting, which was conducted in the most orderly manner, and there 
was not even the slightest suggestion of such a contemplated action. 

When there were a sufficient number of persons in the Hall, comprising all 
the best element of the people of the burg, several leaders of the movement pre- 
vailed on Mayor Fitzpatrick, who was present, to take chair. 

Mayor Fitzpatrick called the meeting to order, and as a preliminary state- 
ment said that they were assembled to take action and not to express sympathy, 
therefore, the sooner they got down to work the better it would be for everybody. 
He then read the call for the meeting, as above, and added that speedy action was 
the most important oJ-jject in view. It was a business meeting, and not one of 
sentiment. 

Mr. Martin Behrman moved that an Executive Relief Committee of twenty- 
one be appointed to take charge of the work of relief. The motion was put and 
earned without dissent. 

Before the gentlemen were named, the Mayor suggested that it would be well 
to elect a Secretary of the meeting, and this was done by the selection of Mr. 
Martin Behrman. 

A recess of ten minutes was the:; taken to permit the Mayor to select the 
Committee. They were then announced as follows: 

Peter S. Lawton, Manuel Abascal, Frank A. Daniels, Martin Behrman, T. J. 
Brigham, R. F. Whitmore, F. R. Hurlburt, Mark A. Morse, Thos. Higgins, Thos. 
J. Mooney, Peter Clements, Henry Carstens, O. I. McLellan, L. A. Hymel, A. E. 
Hotard, Frank C. Henning, IVIax Hambacher, H. L. Sease, Geo. W. Foster, T. F. 
Turnbull and W. F. Umbach. 

A small list of contributions was then read, and then a second recess was 
taken to allow the collection of additional amounts from the gentlemen in the 
meeting. This collection resulted in a very marked augmentation of the total. 

Mr. Brigham suggested that those who were not able to contribute money be 
recognized to afford shelter to the homeless. Many persons were able to housa 

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one or two families. He had three rooms which were at the disposal of the 
Committee. 

Other gentlemen said that the Eureka Hall, Pythian Hall, McDonogh School- 
houses and other buildings were at the disposal of the destitute. 

Then another recess was taken to receive the contributions, and the Mayor 
announced the grand total as §7373- 

The thanks of the citizens were tendered to Mayor Fitzpatrick despite his 
protest. 

The following resolution was also adopted. 

Resolved, That the thanks and appreciation of the citizens of Algiers is hereby 
expressed to Messrs. Hotard & Lawton, proprietors of the Algiers Saw Mill, for 
their timely and valuable assistance in preventing the extension of the contfagra- 
tion over a large territory by furnishing hose and pumps connected with their mill, 
in use of which the properties of Carstens & Vezien, Abascal and many other resi- 
dences along Lavergne and other streets were saved from the raging flames. 

Be it further resolved. That we recommend to the Board ot Underwriters and 
insurance companies interested, the equipping of said Algiers Saw Mill with a 
complete set of hose and and necessary appurtenances as a precautionary measure 
in the future. 

The mass meeting then adjourned subject to call, and the e;cecutive committee 

met. 

Peter S. Lawton was elected chairman, Martin Behrman secretary and Mark 
A. Morse treasurer. 

It was decided that the full committee be subdivided into four sub-committees 
of five each to canvass the squares which had been destroyed, and make an imme- 
diate report as to the neeessities of the destitute. 

The committee then went out to work, after agreeing to meet again at Eureka 
Hall at 8 o'clock p. m. October 21. 

Mayor Fitzpatrick suggested the advisability of issuing an address to the peo- 
ple, explaining the destitution and asking for assistance, which was adopted by the 
committee. 

The following proclamation was issued by Mayor Fitzpatrick : 

PROCLAMATION^. 

To the People of New Orleans : 

A committee of representative citizens of the Fifth District of this City have 
issued a call for relief in behalf of the afflicted people of that section, caused by 
the disastrous conflagration of Sunday morning. The relief must be had at once 
to relieve the present suffering. 

Appreciating the unbounded charity of the people of New Orleans, and the 
great and impressing necessity of assisting the great number of deserving people 
who have been suddenly thrown out of doors bv the fire, I issue this call tor aid, 
requesting such assistance in money, food and clothing as may be tendered. 

All subscriptions, clothing or provtsions will be tliankfully received by Mr. 
Peter Lawton, Chairman Citizens' Committee, Algiers, or at the City Hall, ALiyor 
Office. JOHN FITZPATRICK, Mayor. ' 

The four cimmittees then headed for the police station, where they secured a 
partial list of the families who were burned out, and then started out to hunt them 
up, to ascertain their exact needs and provitie for them as soon as possible. As 
there was nearly a thousand dollars collected at the meeting in cash money, the 
immediate necessities of the destitute were relieved at once. 

The people of Algiers who were so fortunate as to escape the conflagration lost 
no time in manifesting an active sympathy for their suffering and unfortunate 
neighbors. Indeed, in this respect, the people of Algiers showed remarkable 
alacrity, sustaining their reputation of being the most charitable people in the city. 

These committees were chairmaned by the following gentlemen; Conmuttee 
No. I, Frank Daniels; No. 2, R. F. Whitmore; No. 3, Peter Clements; No. 4, V. T. 
Turnbull. Each of these committees, with the above named chairmen, were com- 
posed of prominent gentlemen of Algiers, who went into their work with a will. 

After the meeting had accomplished this, an adjournment was taken, and the 
four committees went about their work of mercy. 'They spent the rest of the eve- 

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ning in making an inspection of the burned district and getting the needed infer 
mation. 

Then again the meeting reassembled at Eureka Hall, and was called to order. 
The various chairmen made their reports, giving the names of those in need of re- 
lief. 

From that period in the cause of charity so urgent, contributions were handed 
into the Committee with prompt liberality. Among the contributions of special 
note were: City of New Orleans, through Mayor Fitzpatrick, S5000; Hon. Adolph 
Meyer, Washimjton, D. C, S500; Southern Pacific Company, $1000; D. H. Holmes, 
$300; Thomas Pickles, S500; John Fitzpatrick, $250; O. I. McLellan, $150; Security 
Brewing Company, $200, through Sam Levy; Southern Telephone Company, §200; 
Barber Asphalt Company, \V. G. Tebault, Geraci & Foto, Manuel Abascal &: Bro., 
George E. Corbett, Eureka Homestead Company, Isadore Newman, Firemen's 
Building Association, American Brewing Company, Wm. H. Seymour, Atlanta, 
Ga., thorough Judge Mooney, New Orleans Brewing Association, S. Hernsheim 
Bros, & Co., L. Fabacher, each, $100; Grand Opera House, S128; colored laborers 
on wharf Southern Pacific Company, $189; through Times-Democrat, §446; through 
N. O. Picayune, $964, all of which was most carefully distributed with great 
prudence. 

A large number of citizens, including the members of the Relief Committee, 
contributed also as their means and circumstances would permit, while others, in- 
cluding the Orphan Asylums and Charitable Associations gave clothing, provisions, 
drugs and bedding, sent from all portions of the City with free and willing hand in 
aid of the sufferers, which was gladly received, and prudently distributed among 
the needy. It was a cause of much regret, however, to note that some who were 
bound by many ties to the place, from birth or other kindred associations, with 
abundant means, failed to throw any bread of charity upon the sea of trouble and 
tribulation existing, upon such a rare occasion in a lifetime. He who gave quickly, 
gave doubly, in those days of sorrow. 

For the members of the Relief Committee, their assistants, and the Chief 
Magistrates of the City at that epoch, words cannot express what is due them. 
May the recording angel so High, keep full record of their noble work; a kindly 
Providence walk unseen by their side in future years to bless and to brighten all 
their hands dare to do and their hearts dare to hope. 

Several meetings were held as occasion required until the final one of Sunday 
November loth, 1895, when the last exhibit was presented, showing the total re- 
ceipt of all funds to that .date to have been $15,994.25. The residue remain- 
ing was then donated to the kind Sisters of the Convent to dispose of as they 
might see proper for benevolence in the town. 

A meeting was subsequently held the same month and attended by many 
receipients and beneficiaries of the large fund and goods disiributed. Resolutions 
of thanks fittingly worded and expressed were submitted by Joseph Hughes, and 
unanimously adopted, tendering the late Relief Committee heartfelt thanks for all 
the good they had accomplished in their work of charity. 

FINALE. 

A few months ago, one walking along the main streets of the town looked 
across a wide tract of desolute ruins. Heaps of ashes were there, gaunt and 
tottering chimneys and fire-l)Iasted trees. .All over the town homeless and hope- 
less families were crowded into the temporary quarters with the renniant of their 
household goods gathered about them. 

Let the visitor make the same journey now. The way will be long, pretty 
streets, with new and buautiful homes lined up on either side. Looking at those 
houses with their Schillinger walks, neat iron fences and the flower beds, gay 
with flowers, Morgan street paved for nearly a mile with vitrified bricks upon con- 
crete foundation. The new viaduct looming up in the distance, near by the tall 
Waterworks reservoir with many other improvements. The same sky is overhead, 
the same earth beneath, the same sun shines as brightly now as some months ago, 
but a walk now along those attractive streets make it difficult to realize that this 
was the same so lately in ashes and ruins. May universal peace and happiness in 
all future years sway their sceptre over this happy, busy town. 

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A Executive Order Issued by Governor Garondelet. 



An order of the olden times, issued by Francois Louis Heccor Baron de 
Carondelet, (Spanish Governor of the Province ot Louisiana,) contributed by a 
lady to the Story of Algiers : 

"New Orleans, 30 June, 1796. 
The persons named Laurent, Petit, Etienne and LeGrand, will not interfere 
with, or disturb the person named Barthelemy Blue, in the possession of the Island 
at Timbalier, which was given to him by decree of the Government. 

LeBaron de Carondelet." 



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